Madison Square Park Size:20" x 25" As the city grew

As the city grew

then an Illinois senator

They had a few years to go before the job was done and the poet Walt Whitman declared that New York had something that fulfilled Christopher Columbus's mission

No record was kept

and the Chrysler Building

Madison Square Park Size:20" x 25" As the city grewThe Flatiron Building became best known for the island footprint it was built on called the Flatiron Block, a shape resembling a clothes iron. A National Historic Landmark since 1989, the Flatiron is a functioning office building and favorite tourist photo stop. Its notoriety as a New York landmark is exemplified by it being a set location in the "Spider Man" movies and in the opening images of "The Late Show With David Letterman."