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It Looked Familiar: Deco

In the Marvel universe, a bad guy is plotting bad things in an apartment house called the Sankovitch Arms:

The old McGraw-Hill Building on West 42nd Street:

Courtesy of Dan Alcalde

Minor note: I worked there in the 1990s. Raymond Hood, the architect, had previously designed the headquarters for American Standard and maintained a good relationship with them, and the men’s room had the fanciest 1930s plumbing I’ve ever seen.

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