DOWNTOWN NEW YORK

The green buildings are the oldest JUMBO buildings. They were built over 100 years ago, when buildings were usually much smaller. Even though they do not seem so big today, when they were built they were humongous. These buildings were about 250,000 square feet.

The blue buildings were built about 100 years ago, between 1900 and 1920. Now, to be a JUMBO building, you had to be about twice as big as the Green JUMBO buildings from twenty years earlier. That's like fitting two of the old JUMBO buildings into one new JUMBO. These new JUMBO buildings were about 500,000 square feet.

Two of the blue buildings are SUPER JUMBO, which is like fitting two of the new, blue JUMBO's into one SUPER JUMBO! The SUPER JUMBO buildings from that time are the Woolworth Building and the Equitable Building. They each cover over one million square feet.

The purple buildings were built in the 1920's. Now a JUMBO building meant you had to cover one million feet. There are four of these buildings on this map. Eight more were built in midtown Manhattan, to see those, click here.

The red buildings were built after 1950. You guessed it, they got even bigger. Now a JUMBO had to cover two million square feet. There are two SUPER JUMBO's in this category: the two buildings of the World Trade Center.

Let's take a look at the Jumbo buildings a little further uptown: in Midtown Manhattan.