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Photographer Charles Ebbets taking pictures atop an unfinished skyscraper, New York, USA, ~1932 (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] aaaaace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Chrysler building?

[โ€“] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

That was finished in 1930, two years before this picture was taken, also the angle towards the Empire State Building doesn't fit. The Rockefeller Center was under construction in 1932 and would fit the location.