This charming brownstone landmark fronting Cooper Park was completed in 1859 by Peter Cooper as a free school of science and art.

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Now called the Union Building, this charming eleven story sliver by John H. Edelmann features a fanciful Moorish tower with an onion dome. It was completed in 1893 for the Decker Brothers Piano company.

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Completed in 1926, this synagogue in Queens features a very large dome.

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Designed by Berg & Clark and completed in 1897, this narrow 273 foot building sports a very elaborate crown. It was demolished in 1910 and replaced by the Bankers Trust Building.

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The original Victorian station by I. C. Buckhout opened in 1871 and has a large train shed behind it. The station was demolished in 1901 for the present Beaux-Arts Building.

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This theater first opened in 1868 as Pike's Opera House, but was bought and renamed in 1869 by Jay Gould. Once showing opera, vaudeville, and later motion pictures, it burned down in 1960.

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Designed by William Hume and completed in 1893, this neo-Romanesque reached seventeed stories and 234 feet and was claimed the "tallest hotel structure in the world." It was replaced in 1927 by the Sherry Netherland Hotel tower.

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This twelve story hotel was built in 1892 by Ralph S. Townsend and was distinguished by its vertical rows of bay windows. The hotel was eventually demolished.

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This Victorian Gothic complex included a market, courthouse, detention house, and fire watchtower. Completed in 1874 by Withers and Vaux, only the courthouse remains today.

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This ten story white marble building was finished in 1893 by Napoleon Le Brun and Sons. It and the neighboring old Madison Square Presbyterian Church were removed to make way for the present Metropolitan Tower.

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AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY BUILDING (Background)

The old Times building was designed in George B. Post in 1889 and was later acquired by Pace University. The 291 foot Tract Society building was completed in 1895 by R. H. Robertson for a religious organization selling low-cost Bibles.

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This focal point of Times Square was finished by Eidlitz & McKenzie for the New York Times in 1905. With a flagpole top at 476 feet, this tower was proclaimed the "City's Tallest Structure from Base to Top." It was remodelled in 1961 to look more "modern" and later replaced.

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The original building was completed in 1875 by R. M. Hunt and decorated with contrasting dark red and black-patterned brick with light-colored granite trim. It was later significantly enlarged to add more stories.

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This unbuilt alternate 1872 design by J. C. Cady features a strong campanile-like corner tower.

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Built in 1898 for the Pabst Beer Co. of Milwaukee, it sat at the head of Times Square. The lower two floors and arcade were occupied by Pabst's Bar and Restaurant. The hotel was torn down in 1903 to make way for the Times Building.

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This fine hotel was constructed by Trowbridge & Livingston in 1904 for John Jacob Astor. This eighteen story, lavishly Beaux-Arts styled hotel was cited as "offensive" in the 1913 report of the city's Heights of Building Commission because of its Fifth Avenue location.

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This forty-seven story tower the world's tallest skyscraper when completed in 1908 by Ernest Flagg. The Singer Manufacturing Company's 612 foot tower was sumptuously decorated in French Beaux-Arts style. This famed landmark was demolished in 1961 to make way for the more modernist steel and glass United States Steel Building.

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Designed in 1908 for the pioneer Jewish community of Borough Park, this is the best example of Georgian synagogue architecture in Brooklyn.

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This insurance headquarters was completed in 1898 by C. L. W. Eidlitz with German Renaissance dormers on its gleaming bronze tiled roof. Its base was faced with pink granite and its shaft clad with smooth limestone. Though considered one of the most positively attractive and popular downtown skyscrapers, it was eventually demolished.

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Sometimes called the Field Office, this 258 foot building overlooking the Battery was finished in 1885 by Edward H. Kendall. Decorated in the Queen Anne style, it was orignally covered in heavy dark red masonry, but was remodelled in 1921 with classical Roman-white limestone and mosaic details to be more fashionably Beaux-Arts looking.

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Grown rich by the massive growth of the telegraph industry, Western Union had G. B. Post build them a new headquarters in 1875. It rose 230 feet to become in its day one of the tallest structures in the city. The iron time ball on its flagstaff would be the precursor to today's lighted New Year's globe in Times Square. The granite clad building style is called Neo-Grec. Designed to be fireproof, it burned down in 1890 in the world's first large fire to occur in tall buildings.

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Also called the Pulitzer Building, this striking building was completed in 1890 by G. B. Post for Joseph Pulitzer's World newspaper. Its Renaissance styling had red sandstone walls up to the fourth story, buff-colored brick and darker buff terra-cotta above, base columns in red granite, base spandrel panels in gray granite, bronze statues, and a gilded copper dome. Critics called it a hideous monstrosity, and it was demolished in 1955 to make way for the widening the Brooklin Bridge approach.

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These last two aren't so much meant for SCURKing but instead are meant to show the kind of richness SimCity should aim for.

From left to right are the City Hall, Brooklyn Bridge Terminal, World Building, the enlarged New York Tribune Building, and the New York Times Building.

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This 1919 photograph shows the approach down Delancey Street east towards the Williamsburg Bridge, at the time the world's largest suspension bridge boasting a pedestrian walkway. The street has since been widened and the subway entrances, streecar pavilions, and bridge walkway removed to make way for a vastly wide, multi-lane automobile boulevard.

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