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The Met Life Tower from Union Square Park. |
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| Continuing my project of identifying all the tall buildings visible from the East Village. - Metropolitan Life Tower - “This tower of massive simplicity in Italian Renaissance style was completed in 1909 from plans by Le Brun and Sons. It’s four clock faces are 26 1/2 feet in diameter, with minute hands weighing 1/2 ton. Four chimes (the largest 7000 pounds) sound a measure by Handel on quarter hours)” - From the plaque erected in 1957 by the New York Community Trust.
Photo taken from Park Avenue on 24th Street. The skyway connects to the Met Life North Building, now Credit Suisse/First Boston |
