Show In the financial district of New York City there are two billion dollars' worth of skyscrapers and other business buildings clustering on the lower end of Manhattan with an office population of with nearly a million people passing to and fro each an hour through Broadway of skyscrapers erected in city since the three tallest have 47 and 48 20 have from 20 to 26 15 to 19 12 to and 10 stories two are over feet high two over feet 14 over feet the block bounded by Broadway and Church and Cortlandt and Liberty provides office room for and if the hundred small blocks below Fulton street are similarly built up there will be room for to work daily in this financial and commercial clearing house of the these built of protected and enclosed with imperishable with partitions and floors fire-proofed with hollow with window fittings and doors of with wire-glass are the safest in the as proved by the Baltimore fire and the San Francisco they rest on pneumatic caissons being sunk to the required 92 in case of the Singer |