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Commerce Building

- Franny Wentzel - Sunday, October 11th, 2009 : goo

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One of the pioneers of redevelopement this wee beastie went up on 44th Street...

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'Heroic' image from a 1950s book on modern office planning - note the is still there.

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More recent image. HVAC unit has obliterated the decorative spire. Up the block is the Gen Tel Building - according to the 1972 Geographia Atlas of NYC.

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View from the .Now seems to lean against one of Harry Mackelowe's midblock infill projects. Across the street is 711 Third Avenue, designed by the architects of the in Philly.

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Robert: 11th Oct 2009 - 21:43 GMT

Very nice images, the structure appears to be some kind of cousin to the Williamsburg Bank in Flatbush and Hanson, Brooklyn, without the clock.

Franny Wentzel: 11th Oct 2009 - 23:19 GMT

If you really want a country cousin to rhe WSB...

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The Alfred E Smith Building in Albany NY

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Comes pretty close in a staid, timeless - and clockless - bureaucratic manner

Robert: 11th Oct 2009 - 23:24 GMT

Yes, you are right! it's more like a brother withot time.
Answered your MM question on my Willy post, please, take a look...

Anna: 7th Aug 2012 - 06:15 GMT

Sep11Ramiromasters @TheStrangerSpeaks People are not very specific but her is the gist of it:Explosives go of in London suwaby system, the officials claim it was a terrorist, that same day they where right in that place conducting a drill for bombs .Analysis: Morally people would be inclined to believe the officials. Logically there was no better suited entity to perform the attack, the plot; to scare people into giving up their rights therefor expanding the officials control, the cover people's trust in them.

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