The Chrysler Building gets the lyrical treatment for its 75th birthday in today’s New York
Times from:
David W. Dunlap: “Juke Joint in the
Sky”
Michael J. Lewis: “Dancing to New Rules, a Rhapsody in
Chrome”
Charles McGrath: “A Lunch Club for the
Higher-Ups”
William L. Hamilton: “On Top of the World, Drafting, Dreaming and
Drilling”
Elaine Louie: “How It Sparkled in the Skyline,” with personal
commentaries from Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Barney, Robert A.M. Stern, Ron Chernow,
Stephen Bennett Phillips, Ada Louise Huxtable, Paul Goldberger, Alexandros Washburn, Carl
Speilvogel, Theodore Prudon, Dorothy Twining Globus and, saved for nearly last perhaps
because he strikes the only sour note, Jimmy Breslin. “It’s nice,” he says. But he prefers the
Flatiron Building “a hundred to nothing over the Chrysler.”
(The Chrysler crown and
spire, above, courtesy of the Margaret Bourke-White Collection, Special Collections Research
Center, Syracuse University Library, via the Times.)
And here’s our far more moody
treatment from “Big Apple
Portraits,” a five-part video/audio essay on New York City posted in April. For the
whole series, just click:
Part 1: “Times Square at
Night.”
Part 2: “Chrysler Building.”
Part 3: “Inwood.”
Part 4: “Ghost Reflections on Fifth Avenue.”
Part 5: “Greenwich Village.”
