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Once the tallest building in New York City and the tallest office building in the world, the World Building of New York is no longer present in its skyline. Officially known as the Pulitzer Building, named for the same man as the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism, this building had an extensive history despite being wiped from the map. Tied to both the American Civil War and the Second World War, one can feel its presence over decades, and it still has reverberations to this day.
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IT’S HISTORY - Weekly tales of American Urban Decay as presented by your host Ryan Socash.
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Scriptwriter - Gregory Back
Editor - Rishi Mittal
Host - Ryan Socash
Production Support - Imana Schoch
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Chapters:
0:00 - The Rise of The World Tower
1:04 - The Man Behind the World Building (Joseph Pulitzer)
2:11 - Joseph Pulitzer joined the American Civil War
3:28 - Pulitzer’s Journalism in America
5:56 - The History of Newspaper Row and the World Building
8:27 - A Word from Our Sponsor - Squarespace
9:45 - The World Building’s Heights
11:32 - Inside the Pulitzer Building
13:27 - The World buildings Dome and Room Usage
15:32 - What was in the basement of the World Building?
18:00 - Decline of the World Newspaper
18:54 - The Pulitzer Building in WWII
20:36 - The demolition of New York's World Building
» SOURCES
https://www.urbanarchive.org/stories/tPhtJjjp8Q3
https://www.pulitzer.org/page/biography-joseph-pulitzer
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joseph-Pulitzer
https://www.newspapers.com/image/139277791/?terms=Pulitzer%20Building&match=1
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60170522/watch-the-dome-for-the-results/
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60170643/signs-in-the-sky/
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/students-teachers/student-resources/research-starters/draft-and-wwii
Creative Commons
Burrows: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Statue_of_Joseph_Pulitzer.JPG
Ricardo Maiko Entz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifling#/media/File:Canon1.JPG
PHGCOM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifling#/media/File:Cannonball_equiped_with_winglets_for_rifled_cannons_circa_1860.jpg
Bubba73: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War#/media/File:Andersonville_National_Cemetery.jpg
Anthony22: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Pulitzer#/media/File:Grave_of_Joseph_Pulitzer.JPG
Lesekreis: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NYC_Liberty_Island_Pulitzer.JPG
OafTobark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._Post#/media/File:George_Browne_Post.jpg
Raman Patel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_World_Building#/media/File:Way_to_the_Brooklyn_Bridge_-_panoramio_(1)_(cropped).jpg
King of Hearts: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brookfield_Place_New_York_August_2017_003.jpg
» NOTICE
Some images may be used for illustrative purposes only - always reflecting the accurate time frame and content. Events of factual error / mispronounced word/spelling mistakes - retractions will be published in this section.
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