Flatiron Building
at 23rd Street between 5th and Broadway
The Flatiron Building was designed by Daniel H. Burnham and Co. and built in 1902. At the time it was one of the tallest buildings in New York. It is a steel-frame structure of the Chicago School in the style of a Renaissance palazzo.
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| The streaked lights of passing traffic in this night time photo are the result of a 3 second exposure on a Leica M9 and 35mm lens. |
Because it sat out
in an open space when it was first built, a wind tunnel
effect with strong downdrafts was created around it.
This led to the phrase "23 skidoo", which is what
policemen said to chase away the men who waited there for
the strong winds to lift the dresses of passing women.
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| The blurred snowflakes in this photo were caused by using the pop-up camera flash to light up the closest flakes. They were so close that they appear only as blurs. |
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| This view is a vertical panoramic made up of six horizontal images taken with a Leica M9. Such a combo renders the resulting image extremely high in resolution. |
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| The Flatiron Building is located just south of Madison Square Park. The building in the background is the Metropolitan Life Insurance building. |
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| The building is
covered in limestone on the bottom and glazed
terra-cotta tiles above. |
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| Extreme telephoto lenses compress space. The photo above and below taken with a 400mm lens are examples of this. |
