TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH BUILDING.
Well . . .which one is it?
The biggest one, of course. Finished in 1916. But this diesn't look finished at all - the tower with the pyramid on top juts out oddly, and a rather plain and ugly service core is revealed.
In other words, they hadn't built the other part yet.
Street view of the completed building, here.
Ah: search for it by its modern name. 195 Broadway (yawn) and you get:
In 1912, Vail developed a two-phase plan for a 29-story headquarters building that would be constructed on Broadway on the block stretching from Dey Street to Fulton Street. The plan entailed constructing one wing on the Dey Street corner, followed by the second wing on the Fulton Street corner.
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