The General Electric Building (570 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan), completed in 1931, is one of the lesser known Art Deco masterpieces of New York. This is what we build when we actually have a sense of who we are as a people.

Old Penn Station. Completed in 1910 in the Beaux-Arts style, it only survived for 53 years when, in 1963, it was replaced by the hideous Penn Station of today. The only good that came of it's demolition was that it helped to kick off the Historic Preservation movement which saved it's sister station: Grand Central