Streetscapes: An Early New York City Skyscraper Remembered

By CHRISTOPHER GRAY, NY Times:
Fri, 10/24/2014 - 9:46am

The Mail & Express Building, built in 1892, was not the tallest, biggest or first skyscraper, but it was certainly the lightest, the most refined.

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