The First Skyscraper

Eleven impossible stories in 1889 while sidewalk skeptics waited for it to fall. The architect slept on the top floor in a storm to prove it

OPEN THE RECORDON THE ATLASHANG IT IN THE MUSEUMGET COUNTED

Part of NEW YORKERS by MLow, a painted census of New York City: 7,541 characters across 19 eras. Read the history of the places or spin into a room of the museum.