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FAVORITES!
100 EXPERTS PICK THEIR TOP 10 NEW
YORK TOWERS
August 31 2005 - January 22 2006
What are your Top Ten favorite New York skyscrapers? That question was posed in a Skyscraper Museum survey completed by an invited list of 100 knowledgeable New Yorkers and building industry professionals, including architects and engineers, developers, brokers, builders, historians, and critics. The results were seen in FAVORITES, an exhibition at the Museum’s Battery Park City gallery. The exhibit featured models, photographs and film, postcards, commemorative books, and souvenirs.
The winner?
Number 1 by a landslide was the Chrysler Building, making the list of 9 out of 10 participants, with 18 singling it out as their absolute Favorite. The Seagram Building took second place with 76 votes, while the Woolworth and Flatiron buildings tied with 73. The Empire State Building and Lever House ran a dead heat for fifth, followed closely by the RCA Building / 30 Rockefeller Center. Trailing these stars by more than twenty votes were the 1930 McGraw-Hill Building, the CBS Building / Black Rock, and the UN Secretariat.
Top 10 Recap:
