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Originally Posted by yankeesfan1000
Walt Whitman was the first person to refer to NY as a city of spires in the 19th century in his poem Manahatta. So if you have a problem with that being a nickname of New York bring it up with Walt Whitman.
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Apparently Whitman missed the past century. Oh wait he was dead. The tallest building in New York when he died in 1892 was The World Building (which had a flagpole not a spire), followed by St. Patrick's Cathedral. Skyscrapers didn't even really exist so CLEARLY, he was not referencing them. Regardless "city of spires" is not represented by today's New York. I can see one out my window (American International). And it never really was, not in any extent that wasn't more prevalent in Europe or any other global city in the modern skyscraper era.
Yes BofA has a spire, but that doesnt make it more "representative" New York than the dozens of other contemporary towers that have gone up near it that all lack spires.