Skyscraper city: how New York was built – in pictures
The Big Apple’s early 20th-century building boom transformed the city with skyscrapers, subways and an awful lot of cement – as documented in these photographs from the New York Public Library’s archives
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Construction of the Woolworth Building at 233 Broadway in 1911.Photograph: New York Public Library
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The Woolworth Building nears completion in 1912.Photograph: New York Public Library.
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The cornerstone ceremony for the central building of the New York Public Library, 1902.Photograph: New York Public Library
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Interior work on the library, looking southwest, 1904.Photograph: New York Public Library
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The structural framework of the central building of the New York Public Library, 1905.Photograph: New York Public Library
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Construction workers position a piece of marble on the roof of the central building of the New York Public Library, 1906.Photograph: New York Public Library
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Construction of the cable road on Broadway in 1891.Photograph: New York Public Library
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Workers building the Broadway subway line under Central Park, 1901.Photograph: New York Public Library
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The New York City subway construction between Broadway and 151 Street, 1901-1905.Photograph: New York Public Library
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Steel construction in a subway tunnel, 1904.Photograph: New York Interborough Rapid Transit Company/Parsons Collection
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Workers place steel beams for the Metropolitan Tower.Photograph: The Research Libraries, New York/Keystone View Company/Underwood & Underwood
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The Singer Building under construction, 1908.Photograph: New York Public Library
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Skyscrapers start to encroach on Trinity Church.Photograph: Detroit Publishing Company Collection from The New York Public Library
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