[Leica] The Flatiron Building

[passaro.vince at gmail.com (Vince Passaro)]

There's actually more development there than I would have thought for 1906.
What a picture. It looks like the Times had one of Van Gogh's descendents
work on it in Photoshop.

Vince

If you
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> The Flatiron Building has been around for more than a century. Here is a
> 1906 photo by Jessie Tarbox Beals from the collection of the Museum of the
> City of New York, via the New York Times. Notice the lack of development
> around the building in contrast to Vince's recent picture. The building
> sits
> on a triangular lot, just south of Madison Sq. Park, where Fifth Avenue and
> Broadway cross at 23rd st. It was said that the architect, Daniel Burnham,
> designed it on a bet when no one believed that he could put a building on
> such a narrow triangular lot. Local folklore says that it was the origin of
> the phrase "23 Skidoo." The winds deflected by the shape of the building
> caused strong updrafts that tended to lift woman's skirts and gave loungers
> a glimpse of ankle and knee. It didn't take much to excite men in the early
> 1900s.
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Flatiron+Building.jpg.html
>
>
> The area is at the edge of New York's photo district. You can see strobe
> flashes popping from studio windows day and night. It is one of the few
> areas in New York where you can walk around with three Leicas hanging from
> neck and shoulder without someone thinking that you had ripped off a camera
> store. My own office for 32 years was on Park Avenue, two blocks southeast
> of the Flatiron Building.
>
>
> Larry Z
>
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