Become a paid member to listen to this article Courtesy of Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Before the advent of architectural modernism’s ...

New York Art Deco masterpiece the Chrysler Building is up for sale. A price has not been listed, but it sold for $150 million ...

The two statues depict the patron saints of police and firefighters and cost taxpayers $850,000.

buildings increasingly seemed to defy the laws of physics. When the market plunged, vacancies in New York soared; the Empire State Building, for instance, sat mostly empty for almost a decade.