Welcome to a website,

dedicated to an amazing early skyscraper of New York City:

The New York World Building (1890-1955)

Part 1

Long before the World Building

http://theworldbuilding.blogspot.com/2010/10/gallery-1-long-before-world-building.html

Part 2

First World Building and Potter Building

http://theworldbuilding.blogspot.com/2010/10/part-2-first-world-building-and-potter.html

Part 3

The Park Row Fire 1882

http://theworldbuilding.blogspot.com/2010/10/part-3-park-row-fire-1882.html

Part 4

World Building - the early years

http://theworldbuilding.blogspot.com/2010/10/part-4-world-building-early-years.html

Part 5

World Building at the edge of the gone centuries

http://theworldbuilding.blogspot.com/2011/05/part-5-world-building-at-edge-of-gone.html

Part 6

World Building - The Unknown Years

http://theworldbuilding.blogspot.com/2011/05/part-6-world-building-unknown-years.html

Part 7

World Building - the late years and the end

http://theworldbuilding.blogspot.com/2011/05/part-7-world-building-late-years-and.html


more postings  about the World Building 
were added at my German Website:

Construction and Demolition of the World Building
http://nygeschichte.blogspot.com/2011/06/construction-and-demolition-of-world.html

The Story of the World Building (told by alternative and recently found "new"pictures)
http://nygeschichte.blogspot.com/2011/06/story-of-world-buiilding-1890-1955.html

an unreleased vision of the World Building from 1889 (in German)
http://nygeschichte.blogspot.com/2011/07/new-world-building-unreleased-1889.html

a new chapter about the World Building Annex from 1907 (in German)
http://nygeschichte.blogspot.com/2011/08/world-building-annex-from-1907.html

a high resolution picture posted on Shorpy
http://www.shorpy.com/node/11259?size=_original

as Part of the Lower Manhattan Saga:
http://nygeschichte.blogspot.de/2012/05/lower-manhattan-journey-through-time_19.html
http://nygeschichte.blogspot.de/2012/06/lower-manhattan-journey-through-time.html
http://nygeschichte.blogspot.de/2012/06/lower-manhattan-journey-through-time_17.html

Liberty lighting the World - Another visit at the Pulitzer Building
http://nygeschichte.blogspot.de/2012/09/liberty-lighting-world-another-visit-at.html

2014 - NEW NEW NEW !!! 2014
"Time and again" from Jack Finney
Following Si Morley on his time journeys 
through the 1882s New York City 
sorry - in German language

Part 1-7: http://nygeschichterucksack.blogspot.de/2014/05/time-and-again-si-morleys-new-york.html

Last Part (7): June 14th 2014

- to be continued -