Calling for a “144-square-block airport rising 200 feet above street level on steel columns from 24th to 71st street,” William Zeckendorf’s Rooftop Airport was “not considered (completely) pie-in-the-sky when it was unveiled in 1945.” | Viewing NYC

These Never-Built Designs Would Have Drastically Changed New York City

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Calling for a “144-square-block airport rising 200 feet above street level on steel columns from 24th to 71st street,” William Zeckendorf’s Rooftop Airport was “not considered (completely) pie-in-the-sky when it was unveiled in 1945.”