
On the first and second floor windows of World Wide Plaza on 8th Avenue between 49th Street and 50th Street are these great pieces of window art, referencing iconic images of New York City–its bridges, taxis, subways, and street signs. Seen from both the street and at the entrance to the subway on 49th Street, the images also look down on an open atrium into the subway station. A fun tidbit is that World Wide Plaza sits on the former site of the third Madison Square Garden, long a parking lot before this development. Images via NYCDay2Day World Wide Plaza, designed by David Childs, is home to the law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore, whose decision to move to Hell’s Kitchen was met with downright shock by Paul Goldberger in 1990. He writes in The New York Times, If you believe in the religion of gentrification, the arrival of Cravath, Swaine & Moore on Eighth… Read More