#427 The Chrysler Building and the Great Skyscraper Race - Listen

#427 The Chrysler Building and the Great Skyscraper Race

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The Chrysler Building remains one of America's most beautiful skyscrapers and a grand evocation of Jazz Age New York. But this architectural tribute to the automobile is also the greatest reminder of a furious construction surge that transformed the city in the 1920s.

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