City Landmarks

Don't we all think that city buildings should serve the purposes of us, the people? I like to show them doing this: the tenements being a warm center of many different human concerns, the Flat Iron Building with a muddle of people rushing around its ankles, the Con Ed Building with a stack of other buildings not so elegant and also buses and cars swarming all around. Buildings have their own personalities, too. Some rise in dignity above their neighbors, others huddle close to earth . . . by Watson

Dominating the skyline of the financial area are the gigantic towers of Lower Manhattan with the Statue of Liberty, and Battery Park Plaza: landscaping a flowered plaza of fountains and sculpture, with observation decks.

At Union Square Park,, there is the clock tower of the Con Edison Building with its classical design.