Flight Over Midtown shape-square The building was called Times

The building was called Times Tower and at 375 feet the gothic fortress was the second-tallest building in the world

" answers reporters' questions before the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Pittsburgh

Staff photographer Nicole Bengiveno took this photo from a crosstown bus traveling along 14th Street on Oct

Many cars had bullet-nose front ends (a shape meant to suggest aircraft engine housings)

Flight Over Midtown shape-square The building was called TimesA pilot named Ted Herbert goes for a spin over midtown Manhattan in February 1937. He is operating a new type of sport plane dubbed a "flivver" in The New York Times, which houses a V 8 automobile engine. This latest invention would reportedly solve New York's traffic problems since the engine "could be taken from a Ford and installed in the plane when the owner decides to quit the road and take to the air." Mr. Herbert reportedly flew out of