# Where in New York City (Manhattan) Is This Building? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 26, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-new-york-city-manhattan-is-this-building/720902 "2015-05-26T20:21:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-new-york-city-manhattan-is-this-building/720902/1 "2015-05-26T20:21:17Z")
The one at top left of [this](http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/05/06/marc_yankus_the_series_buildings_is_a_timeless_looks_at_some_new_york_city.html) site. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-new-york-city-manhattan-is-this-building/720902/2 "2015-05-26T20:32:14Z")
It’s not real. From here: [http://www.interaliamag.org/audiovisual/marc-yankus/](http://www.interaliamag.org/audiovisual/marc-yankus/) > [@](#): > > “Somewhere in the West 30s,” 2013, is the result of catching a partial glimpse and constructing the rest of the building from my imagination. It turns out that when I walked around the corner and looked up I realized it was The New Yorker Hotel, which is not at all what I saw and rebuilt in my mind’s eye. Well, maybe it sort of is - image here: [Wyndham New Yorker Hotel - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyndham_New_Yorker_Hotel#/media/File:NewYorker_Hotel.JPG) ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-new-york-city-manhattan-is-this-building/720902/3 "2015-05-26T20:38:07Z")
My knowledge of west 30s Manhanttan has been affirmed, then. When I saw that, I thought it looked like the New Yorker building, but did not recall seeing any building that looked quite like that one. ---
**Author:** ![MikeS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MikeS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeS)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-new-york-city-manhattan-is-this-building/720902/4 "2015-05-26T20:40:17Z")
Yeah, it looks like a picture of the New Yorker Hotel that’s been mirrored left to right and touched-up in Photoshop. It’s not a perfect left-right mirroring — look at the windows along the center line of the top tier — but it’s pretty close. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-new-york-city-manhattan-is-this-building/720902/5 "2015-05-26T23:41:18Z")
That would be a pretty cool building if it actually existed. Too bad skyscrapers aren’t required to have setbacks anymore. They always made for some interesting architectural features. A single big vertical wall is kinda monotonous. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2015, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-new-york-city-manhattan-is-this-building/720902/6 "2015-05-27T03:11:33Z")
For what it’s worth, I once stayed at the New Yorker Hotel. I was, in fact, going to a SDMB meeting (the one at Chumley’s). And while it was a really classy place, I have literally never seen a smaller hotel room.