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Skyscrapers in New York City
Skyscrapers in New York City
After living in NYC for a few years now, I continue to be amazed how the skyline still manages to change year after year with the addition of new major skyscrapers. For context, I have seen three of the top five tallest towers (Central Park Tower, Steinway Tower, One Vanderbilt) finish construction. I also developed a habit in looking up the architect for any major skyscraper that I would come across.
Given this fascination, I was curious in exploring more into the history of skyscraper construction in NYC and seeing which architects played a major role in developing this city. To answer this, I luckily stumbled upon Skyscraper Page which contains all the information I was interested in about a skyscraper which includes building name, address, construction year, number of floors, and architect. After webscraping all this information for each built skyscraper in NYC and following this with some necessary data cleaning, here are some of my observations: