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The marvelous storyline of the Flatiron: the instantly recognizable building that signaled the start of a new age in New York record. Critics hated it. The public feared it would topple over. Passersby were knocked down by the winds. But even before it was completed, the Flatiron Building acquired become an remarkable part of New York City. The Flatiron Building was built by the Chicago-based Fuller Company - an organization founded by George Fuller, "the daddy of the skyscraper" - to be their New York headquarters. The business's president, Harry Black colored, was never in a position to make the public call the Flatiron the Fuller Building, however. Black's was the country's major real estate firm, constructing Macy's section store, and soon after the Plaza Hotel, the Savoy Hotel, and a great many other iconic structures in New York as well as in other locations across the country. With an ostentatious lifestyle that drew regular media scrutiny, Black colored made a lot of money only to meet a tragic, untimely end. In The Flatiron, Alice Sparberg Alexiou chronicles not only the storyline of the building but the heady times in New York at the dawn of the 20th hundred years. It was a time when Madison Square Playground shifted from a promenade for abundant women to one for homosexual prostitutes; when picture taking became a skill; motion pictures had become; the booming current economic climate endured increasing depressions; jazz came up to the forefront of popular music - and everything within steps of 1 of the city's best-known and best-loved structures.
