rbt
Senior Member
.... surely that is a joke?
Not to the person proposing it at the time (mid 40's?).
Edit: Search by image is my friend. Evidently there was one proposed for London too.
http://untappedcities.com/2013/06/2...hat-never-was-midtowns-dream-rooftop-airport/
"The 990-acre Manhattan Airport was the brainchild of real-estate mogul William Zeckendorf, who also owned the Chrysler Building and Astor Hotel. According to a 1946 LIFE article (via Ptak Science), Zeckendorf’s $3 billion project–an astronomical sum today, let alone in the 1940′s–would have stretched 144 blocks from 24th to 71st Streets and 9th Ave to the Hudson River at 200 feet above street level."
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