The narrow tip
The classic view.
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The Flatiron Building is a triangular skyscraper at 175 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, where Fifth Avenue and Broadway cross at Madison Square, about 900 m in a straight line south of the Empire State Building. Designed by Daniel Burnham and Frederick Dinkelberg, it opened in 1902 as the headquarters of the Fuller Company and was first called the Fuller Building. Its nickname comes from its shape, like an old cast-iron clothes iron. At first some New Yorkers doubted it could stand and called it «Burnham's Folly». It has 22 floors and is about 94 m tall, and its narrow northern tip is only about 2 m wide. The steel frame is clad in limestone and glazed terracotta carved in a Renaissance style, with rows of windows that ripple around its curved tip. The building gave its name to the whole Flatiron District around it. It is not open to visitors inside, so the best views are from the triangle of plazas in front of its tip and from Madison Square Park across the road, especially when the trees blossom in spring. The observation decks of the Empire State Building also look down on it.
The classic view.
Across the road.
Stone and terracotta.
175 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, New York, United States
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From the plazas at its tip or Madison Square Park.