Never Built New York

Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin’s new book Never Built New York pictures bold, never-built designs for the city like bad boy architect Raymond Hood’s “Skyscraper Bridge” (above). Hood proposed over a dozen bridges over Manhattan’s rivers, lined with skyscrapers 50 or 60 stories high. There would be amenities on the bridges—shop and theaters—and elevators to the river for water sports. 

See more designs for a New York that never came to be at Atlas Obscura.