Silverfish Wrote:I would suggest not following this particular trail of Jack's.
Hehehe, well, yeah, not that PARTICULAR trail, but the building itself. Just looked; it was the Hand Building.
Here's Paul's response to a similar question asked a few years ago:
fpw Wrote:Here are some of Jack's favorite buildings. The first 2 are international landmarks, but they become a little more obscure -- to out of towners -- after that:
Chrysler Building – E. 42nd
Flat Iron
The old Pythian Club (now apts) - 135 W. 70th
The Level Club (build by Masons) on W. 70th
Hearst Magazine Building - 959 8th Ave. (57th & 8th) 6 stories with urn-topped columns jutting above the roofline at each corner and over the entry arch.
The Radiator Building – 40 W. 40th
Woolworth Building (esp. lobby) 233 broadway
Sherry-Netherland Hotel – 781 5th
Jefferson Market Courthouse – 6th Ave & 10th
NY Yacht Club – W. 44th (the windows look like the stern of a galleon)
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft