Old and New City Halls and World Building, New York City

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Keystone View Company

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Creation Date

1905

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This slide depicts New York City’s old and new City Halls and the World Building, also known as the Pulitzer Building. The Pulitzer Building finished construction in December 1890, being the first building in New York City to loom over Trinity Church as well as being the tallest building in the city at the time. It would be made the headquarters of the New York World newspaper and would remain in use until 1931 when the newspaper was shut down. The building was demolished between 1955 and 1956 to build an expanded entrance ramp for the Brooklyn Bridge. The New York City City Hall has been rebuilt and redesigned several times since its initial construction in 1690. The halls displayed on the lantern slide are of the old City Hall, constructed in 1812 as part of an architectural design contest, and the David N. Dinkins Manhattan Municipal Building, which was constructed between 1909 and 1914 to house the increased size of the New York City government.

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