David N. Dinkins Municipal Building 2
by Christopher James
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David N. Dinkins Municipal Building 2
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Christopher James
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Photograph - Photography
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The David N. Dinkins Municipal Building, originally the Municipal Building and then the Manhattan Municipal Building, at 1 Centre Street in Manhattan, New York City, is a 40-story building built to accommodate increased governmental space demands after the 1898 consolidation of the city's five boroughs. Construction began in 1907 and ended in 1914, marking the end of the City Beautiful movement in New York. William M. Kendall of the noted architectural firm McKim, Mead & White designed the building, which was the first to incorporate a subway station the Chambers Street station, served by the J Z trains into its base.
Enormously influential in the civic construction of other American cities, the building's architectural style has been variously described as Roman Imperial, Italian Renaissance, French Renaissance, or Beaux-Arts. It served as the prototype for the Terminal Tower in Cleveland, and the Wrigley Building in Chicago, in addition to the Seven Sisters of Stalin-era Soviet architecture.
At present, the Municipal Building is home to over 2,000 employees from a dozen municipal agencies in nearly 1 million square feet of office space. The building was designated a New York City landmark in 1966, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. On October 14, 2015, the building was renamed after former mayor David N. Dinkins. The ramp for the Brooklyn Bridge is in the right foreground.
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