The Skyscraper Museum is devoted to the study of high-rise building, past, present, and future. The Museum explores tall buildings as objects of design, products of technology, sites of construction, investments in real estate, and places of work and residence. This site will look better in a browser that supports web standards, but it is accessible to any browser or Internet device.
BERENICE ABBOTT PHOTOGRAPHS
Fortieth Street Between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, Berenice Abbott, 1938. From Changing New York, 1939. Works Progress Administration, Collection of The Skyscraper Museum.
Two of Ely Jacques Kahn's most prestigious Moderne showroom buildings, 1400 and 1410 (The Bricken Casino Building) Broadway, which dominate the northern end of the Garment District, are seen here from the east. The setbacks required by the zoning are put to dramatic effect in both designs, with the Casino culminating in a tower with fins (recently removed).
Fortieth Street Between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, Berenice Abbott, 1938. From Changing New York, 1939. Works Progress Administration, Collection of The Skyscraper Museum.
Berenice Abbott took this dramatic photograph of the east side of Seventh Avenue, showing buildings located between 36th and 39th Streets, as part of her book, Changing New York, a project that documented the dramatic transformation of the modern city.
