New York City as seen from the 86th floor observation deck of the Empire State Building.
Since it was completed in 1902, the Flatiron Building, at East 23rd Street and Fifth Avenue, has a way of taking over every photograph it appears in. In cutting across Manhattan, Broadway creates two wedges every time it crosses one of the avenues. No architects were able to take better advantage of the opportunity these wedges created than Daniel Burnham and his colleagues, pioneering designers of skyscrapers from Chicago, who were among the first to use steel-frame construction in New York City for this project.