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.

DOWNTOWN NEW YORK WEB WALK

The Downtown New York Web Walk offers four interactive virtual walking tours through Lower Manhattan's skyscraper canyons and more than a century of high-rise construction. In addition, four downloadable versions, featuring text and photographs in Adobe PDF format, are also available for touring on foot.

LAUNCH THE WEB WALK
This link will open the project in a new window.

DOWNLOAD WALKING TOURS
Click here to access PDF versions for print.

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INSTRUCTIONS:

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WEB WALK SUPPORT:

Maps and 3D views of the city were provided by:

 

The Web Walk was initiated with funds from the office of The Manhattan Borough Presidents Office and the Manhattan Borough President, C. Virginia Fields.

 

The programs of The Skyscraper Museum are supported in part by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

 

WEB WALK CREDITS
For the Skyscraper Museum:
Carol Willis, Laura Lee Pedersen, Max Joel, Ned Dodington, Lily Pollans, Alison Stafford Fraser and Gabriel Wick.
Website design: Mark Watkins / Urban Interface
Special thanks to Andrew S. Dolkart
Technical assistance from ActionScript.org and the News forum macromedia.flash.