# What NYC Skyscraper is this?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 8, 2014, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nyc-skyscraper-is-this/697830 "2014-09-08T05:12:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nyc-skyscraper-is-this/697830/1 "2014-09-08T05:12:55Z")

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I guess I don’t know my skyscrapers. [It’s the second from the right.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/NYC_skyline_Dec_1941.jpg)in this great old photo.

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nyc-skyscraper-is-this/697830/2 "2014-09-08T05:27:24Z")

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Are you certain that’s NYC? I don’t recognize it, but then again I’m not an NYC expert. How do you know it’s NYC?

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**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nyc-skyscraper-is-this/697830/3 "2014-09-08T05:34:32Z")

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> [@Bullitt](#):
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> Are you certain that’s NYC? I don’t recognize it, but then again I’m not an NYC expert. How do you know it’s NYC?

Right click “search Google for this image”.

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**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nyc-skyscraper-is-this/697830/4 "2014-09-08T05:37:13Z")

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> [@Bullitt](#):
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> Are you certain that’s NYC? I don’t recognize it, but then again I’m not an NYC expert. How do you know it’s NYC?

Probably the fact that the file is called “NYC\_skyline\_Dec\_1941.”

Here it is on Shorpy though they don’t name the building. [“Lower Manhattan seen from the S.S. Coamo leaving New York.”](http://www.shorpy.com/node/3348?size=_original#caption)

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**Author:** ![Mikahw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Mikahw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikahw)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nyc-skyscraper-is-this/697830/5 "2014-09-08T05:59:26Z")

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I was bored, so I went through the list of tallest buildings in NYC on Wikipedia. Looks like it’s 20 Exchange Place, formerly the City Bank-Farmers Trust Building. [CoStar | # 1 Commercial Real Estate Information Company](http://www.emporis.com/images/show/147138-Large.jpg)

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**Author:** ![Mr\_Downtown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nyc-skyscraper-is-this/697830/6 "2014-09-09T04:30:41Z")

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Yes, that’s 20 Exchange Place.