CHRYSLER BUILDING
2025
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Large building with an incredible view with its 77 floors for 318 m high suggesting a brief but unmissable visit
It's one of New Yorkers' favorite skyscrapers, and one of the Big Apple's most iconic landmarks. Built in 1930, the Chrysler Building was for a year the world's tallest skyscraper, with 77 floors and a height of 318 meters. It's recognizable by its graceful appearance, giant eagle-shaped gargoyles and fantastic, shiny dome. Owner Walter P. Chrysler (1875-1940), an automobile magnate, wanted a building to immortalize his firm's reputation. New York owes him the most imaginative of its Art Deco masterpieces. The skyscraper took just two years to build. Unusually for its time, not a single worker died during its construction. The building never belonged to the Chrysler brand: Walter Chrysler wanted his children rather than his company to inherit it. The family therefore sold the skyscraper in 1953, and it has since been bought back many times.
Today, the building's future remains up in the air: the Austrian company that owned it filed for bankruptcy at the end of 2023. Cooper Union (the landowner) regained control of the building in 2025 and is looking for a new partner to renovate it. Employees working there complain of elevator problems, mouse infestations, cracks and jammed doors. A lack of maintenance that unfortunately tarnishes the brilliance of this emblematic skyscraper, which seems to be shrinking in the midst of Manhattan's ever taller and more modern skyscrapers.
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Opening time and information on CHRYSLER BUILDING
Only the lobby can be visited. It is open Monday to Friday from 8am to 6pm.
Members' reviews on CHRYSLER BUILDING
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The best at New York (Manhattan) and around
CHEZ FRANCIS
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