Architecture

Don't lie to me, when somebody says New York there is a big chance, that the first thing comes to your mind is the skyscapers. New York is defined by its architecture, and NYC always pushed its boundaries. 

You can meet with the classical side of New York, Manhattan, which became so crowded it needed to expand upwards, so this way the famous skylines and skyscrapers were made. In vertical growth architects built their buildings with features like arches, vaults and columns. The City Hall and the Woolworth Building are great examples of the classical NYC

Beaux-Arts is demonstarted by many structures in Central Park and the Public Library.

Art Deco replaced it later with it's decorative stlye, geometric shapes and zig-zag patterns. The Empire State Building and the Rockefeller Center are good examples of Art Deco.

International Style ( promoted a new, modern, universal, and utilitarian architecture characterized by simplicity, rationality, functionality, and absence of ornamentation.. Those modernist architects designed boxy skyscrapers with new materials such as steel, glass, and reinforced concrete.the United Nations Building the most famous debates of architecture took place in NYC.)

 In the 1960s, a modernist plan for demolishing the Beaux Arts style Pennsylvania Station stormed a protest. Penn Station was eventually replaced with the Madison Square Garden, but this protest led NYC to establish laws for architectural preservation.

Also in the 1960s, prompted by the preservationist Jane Jacobs, another protest saved lower Manhattan from demolition. This created a grassroots movement which kept many of the most precious neighborhoods of NYC from destruction. With its stance in stopping urban demolitions, NYC inspired many other places in the world including Boston and Toronto.