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National-Lefcourt Building
National-Lefcourt Building

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IMAGE DATE1940
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National-Lefcourt Building, 1993.

This boxy-tower, formerly known as the National Lefcourt Building, was erected in 1929 by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon Associates. 40-stories high, the building was completed for Abraham E. Lefcourt, one of New York’s leading real estate developers in the 1920s.

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