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Sat, 20 Apr 2024 11:41:07 -0500

On our trips to New York, we often walk up Broadway to our midtown hotel after a performance downtown. The parks and outdoor seating make it easy to admire the City after dark. Another tall building story: until the Woolworth overtook it in 1913, the Metropolitan Life Tower (on the right) was the world's tallest. It was modeled on St Mark's Campanile in Venice, only twice as big. Subsequent renovations removed much detail and the company moved to the MetLife (formerly Pan Am) building over Grand Central but it is still grand.