Flatiron Building

The Flatiron Building, originally the Fuller Building ,the building sits on a triangular island-block formed by Fifth Avenue, Broadway. The neighborhood around it is called the Flatiron District after its signature building, which has become an icon of New York City.

Broadway

5th Avenue

The Flatiron Building was designed by Chicago's Daniel Burnham as a vertical Renaissance palazzo with Beaux-Arts styling.the Flatiron Building epitomizes the Chicago school conception  like a classical Greek column, its facade  is divided into a base, shaft and capital.

23 skidoo

When construction on the building began, locals took an immediate interest, placing bets on how far the debris would spread when the wind knocked it down.

This is said to have given rise to the phrase "23 skidoo", from what policemen would shout at men who tried to get glimpses of women's dresses being blown up by the winds swirling around the building due to the strong downdrafts.

In popular culture

Today, the Flatiron Building is frequently used on televisioncommercials and documentaries as an easily recognizable symbol of the city, shown, for instance, in the opening credits of the Late Show with David Letterman or in scenes of New York City that are shown during scene transitions in the TV sitcoms Friends, Spin City, and Veronica's Closet. In the 1998 film Godzilla, the Flatiron Building is accidentally destroyed by the US Army while in pursuit of Godzilla, and it is depicted as the headquarters of the Daily Bugle, for which Peter Parker is a freelance photographer, in the Spider-Man movies.