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Date: | Fri, 19 Nov 1999 14:27:44 EST |
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Posted by NAMFCLA (North American Man-File Cabinet Love Association):
From the New York Times, December 16, 1938:
CITY BOARD SCORES DESIGN FOR HUNTER
Borough President James J. Lyons told the architects that their design [for
the boxy, mid-rise building at 68th and Park Avenue, of limestone with
industrial-style windows] looked like a "warehouse". William F. Lamb of the
firm of Shreve Lamb & Harmon, designers of the Empire State Building [said]
"I know the layman says this is a terrible building, but they said the same
thing about the Empire State Building - until it was finished."
"I still say it is a terrible building" remarked Deputy Mayor Henry H.
Curran.
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