#61 The Pan Am Building

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Places & Travel, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2008

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Today it's the Met Life Building. It's been called the ugliest building in New York City. It sits like a monolith behind one of the city's most enduring icons Grand Central Terminal. But it's got some secrets you may not know about. In this podcast, we scale the heights of this misunderstood marvel of modern architecture. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	Episode 61 of The Bowery Boys, The Pan Am, Met Life Building.
0:04.9	Hey, it's The Bowery Boys!
0:06.4	Hey!
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0:12.4	Eurochipo editors personally visit and review the best budget hotels in Europe.
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0:22.2	Hello there and welcome to The Bowery Boys, my name is Greg Young.
0:25.0	And I'm Tom Myers.
0:26.3	Today we're taking a trip up Park Avenue South.
0:29.4	And we're going to stop at Grand Central Station, look up.
0:32.4	And our podcast is on that tall, some would say, obstruction in the way called The Pan Am Building.
0:39.5	Today called The Met Life Building.
0:41.2	For the purpose of this podcast, we will continue to refer to it as The Pan Am Building.
0:46.5	Because you history junkies out there and lovers of old New York, there is actually another
0:51.5	building technically referred to as the Met Life Building Metropolitan Life Insurance Tower.
0:58.0	That beautiful, gold, top building.
1:00.0	Also on Park Avenue.
1:01.6	Also on Park Down.
1:02.9	Absolutely.
1:03.7	When it blocks overlooking Madison Square Park.
1:05.7	Correct. So we're going to keep with The Pan Am Building.
1:08.2	It also has a kind of like retro kind of feel to it.
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