100 Years of 100 Things: The NYC Skyline

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 14, 2025

As our centennial series continues, Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic for The New York Times and the author of The Intimate City: Walking New York (Penguin Press, 2022), talks about the major changes to the NYC skyline across the past century.

 

correction: The tallest  building in Brooklyn for many years was the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower at 1 Hanson Place.

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