Building Question.

Hey, gang. Can anyone tell me the name of the building that is just off from Empire State Building? It sticks out among the skyscrapers. It%26#39;s currently red, white and blue like the ESB.

Thanks a bunch. Sorry I am not more descriptive. I think it has a gold tip.

Building Question.

I think you are referring to the New York Life Insurance Building.

Building Question.

Thanks for your response but I looked up the building and that is not it. The gold tip is smaller than the one on the insurance building. Any other ideas?

I was just checking some pictures, and the two I can find with gold tops are the Metroploitan Insurance Building which has a larger gold spire and a clock, and the New York Life Insurance Buiding which has the smaller top. Any good?

Metropolitan -----wish you could edit these posts as it would be so much easier for my clumsy keyboard use!

Hey, great! That%26#39;s exactly it. Thanks. :)

Useless trivia for the day: The old Metropolitan Life Insurance tower at #1 Madison Avenue was the tallest building in the world when it opened, and it was modeled after the bell tower of St. Mark%26#39;s Cathedral in Venice. Its architect was Napoleon LaBrun, who also did the Cathedral of SS Peter and Paul in Philly, and lots of firehouses all over Manhattan -- including the fantasmagorical one at White Street. Originally, the building was much richer in detail, but in a ';modernization'; in the late 1950%26#39;s, it was all scraped off, which is a pity...