The back reads: "Future New York will be pre-eminently the city of skyscrapers. The first steel frame structure regarded as a skyscraper was the Tower Building at 50 Broadway, a 10-story structure 129 feet high. There are now over 1,000

This reminds me of another fantasy of "future New York": rebuilding the World Trade Center. The once-deemed Freedom Tower was supposed to reach rooftop level by the end of 2010 with topping out in 2011. Estimated completion of the tower was then pushed back to 2013. Today, 10 years after toppling, it stands all of 12 stories. Seems to me we were much more accomplished in the 1910s than the 2010s.
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