Traveling Tolins 2

New York City is well defined by its museums, theater, and iconic food dis-tricts--from Chinatown to Little Italy--but perhaps it is best known as the “City of Skyscrapers.”  This nickname began with its first cathedral:  Trinity Church, one of the city’s tallest buildings at 280 feet tall at the time of its completion in 1846.  The so-called construction boom for the highest commercial building began in the late 19 th century, and since then many architecturally significant buildings have emerged.  Among them are the E V Haughwout Building (1857), Flatiron Building (1901), Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower (1909), Woolworth Building (1912), Manhattan Municipal Building (1914), New York Life Insurance Building (1928), Chrysler Building (1930), Empire State Building (1931), 30 Rockefeller Plaza (“30 Rock,” 1930s), and One World Trade Center (“The Freedom Tower,” 2013). New York by Land & Sea  We saw New York’s famed tall ships and embark a moto...