The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower is a skyscraper occupying a full block in the Flatiron District of Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States. The building is composed of two se
Seen in 2024
The tower (center) seen from below with clock faces; the east wing is to the right, and the New York Merchandise Mart (far left) and Metropolitan Life North Building (near left) can also be seen
Detailed view of the clock face on the tower's Western side
The pyramidal roof of the tower has dormer windows and is topped by a peristyle and cupola.
Woolworth Building
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The Woolworth Building is a 792-foot-tall residential building and early skyscraper at 233 Broadway in the Tribeca neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City, United States. Designed by Cass Gil
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower
…jubilee dinner in January 1910 to celebrate the tower's completion. The tower was the world's tallest building until 1913, when it was surpassed by the Woolworth Building in Tribeca, within lower Manhattan. A 1914 company history estimated that the entire complex could accommodate 20,000 visitors and tenants per day. A…
The Woolworth Building in 2009
The building's crown
Part of the lobby
Detail of elevators