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SCOUT· 21%1h 25m·2024-03-01·History#427 The Chrysler Building and the Great Skyscraper Race
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
The Chrysler Building remains one of America's most beautiful skyscrapers and a grand evocation of Jazz Age New York. But this architectural tribute to the automobile is also the greatest reminder of a furious construction surge that transformed the city in the 1920s. After World War I, New York became newly…
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