A Third Angle

Here is, finally, the front of City Hall, with the Tweed Courthouse right behind it, the small and plain City Courthouse just to the right of Tweed, the Hall of Records behind that, and the not-quite-complete new Municipal Building off the northeast corner of the Park. The ongoing construction puts this at 1914 or so.

City Hall remained the center of power in the local government, but the construction of the high-rise Municipal Building was, if nothing else, a statement of what New York’s architecture had become.