This postcard from 1925 imagines succeeding New York City , “ The City of Skyscrapers . ” Utopian New York of the 1920s had a lot of storey , with a organization of elevated trains , beautiful vanish widget , and towering skyscrapers make toward the heavens .
I ’m enchant by New York futurism , as it in general had a more rugged or old human beings vibe ( even in its utopian mannikin ) than the futurism of the lustrous western United States .
Of naturally New York is a favorite setting for the apocalyptical as well . Just yesterday my friend Brian Horrigan , conscientious objector - author of the bookYesterday ’s Tomorrows , told me about a decidedly apocalyptic Bible focusing on New York that I ca n’t wait to get my manus on , The City ’s End : Two Centuries of Fantasies , Fear , and premonition of New York ’s Destruction .
The post card is from my personal aggregation , but the appointment I ’m using is ground uponCorbis image .
UPDATE : Though the selfsame colorized look-alike from Corbis may very well be from 1925 , I ’ve found earlier source of this image from travel guidebook publisherMoses B. B. King , date back to1911 .
FUTURE NEW YORK will be pre - eminently the city of skyscrapers . The first steel physical body construction that was consider as a skyscraper was the Tower Building at 50 Broadway , a ten report structure 129 feet mellow . There are now over a thousand edifice of that altitude in Manhattan . The best known skyscraper are the Singer Building , 612 feet high , the Metropolitan Building , 700 feet high ; and the Woolworth Tower which loom above them all and get up to a height of 790 foot . The proposed Pan American Building is to be 801 feet high .
This berth by Matt Novak originally seem onPaleo - Future Blog . Email Matt Novakhere , andfollow him on Twitter as @paleofuture .
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