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Cooper’s interest in the city was in its built landscape, in the poetry of its crowded buildings that alternated small scale and old with the heralds of the new City, its awe-inspiring skyscrapers.

This painting of the Metropolitan Insurance Tower offers a relatively rare view in Cooper’s New York oeuvre, a skyscraper study that contrasts brick and mortar with parkland. In contrast, the picture dated 1917 offers a very different view, with the artist looking south on Madison Avenue past a fully-rendered Madison Square Garden (on the east side of the street between 26th and 27th Streets, designed by architect Stanford White in 1910 and demolished in 1925), juxtaposing the famous tower of the Garden with the taller tower of the insurance company seen in the distance. The light green of the trees in the park and the passengers riding on the open-air upper level of one of the double-decker buses suggest a spring day. The double-decker buses in the right foreground are motorized vehicles, suggesting a late 1910s date. Most importantly, Cooper focuses on the insurance company headquarters, with its 52-story tower and adjacent 11-story office building, dating from 1893. He includes busy pedestrian and vehicular traffic on 23rd Street and Broadway, scans the open space at the southern end of the park, and sketches the domed roof and lantern of Stanford White’s Madison Square Presbyterian Church (1906–19) at 24th Street. In the present painting Cooper looks across Madison Square Park from Broadway at 24th Street, from a vantage point that seems to just skim the treetops in the park across the street. Cooper painted the Metropolitan Life Tower at least twice, once in the present painting, which is undated, and once in 1917. So it remained until 1913, when bragging rights passed to Cass Gilbert’s Woolworth Building on downtown Broadway between Park Place and Barclay Street. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Tower, rising majestically on the east side of Madison Square Park, was the tallest building in the world when it was completed in 1909. Signed (at lower left): Colin Campbell CooperĮX COLL.: private collection, until the present Pied-a-terres, purchasing for children and subletting after two years of ownership are allowed.Metropolitan Life Tower, Madison Square, about 1909–19

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Amenities include 24/7 doorman service, a live-in building manager, full maintenance staff, BuildingLink app for resident services, a modern laundry room (though in-unit washer dryers are allowed), and a beautifully landscaped and furnished rooftop garden that looks out on a truly breathtaking city skyline. The architect for the Empire State Building designed Murray Hill Plaza. Conveniently located less than a 15 minute walk to Bryant Park, Madison Square Park and the Theater District. The address overlooks The Morgan Library and Museum, and is surrounded by restaurants, parks and shopping. Situated conveniently between 37th and 38th Streets on Madison Avenue, Murray Hill Plaza is a 180-unit co-op building that stands 17 stories tall in the heart of Midtown Manhattan, central to the major subway and railway stations (Penn and Grand Central nearby). The master bedroom has spectacular open city window views including eastern sunrise exposure.

The smart floor plan affords a gracious flow for living, dining, entertaining, and home office space if desired.

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11L’s impeccable interiors have been meticulously renovated from the Gourmet Chef’s kitchen featuring Quartz countertops, custom wood and glass cabinetry, soft close drawers, tiled backsplash and floors, stainless steel appliances, beautiful refinished hardwood floors throughout the apartment, a modern full size sleek newly tiled bathroom with a glass shower enclosure, extensive closet space, and modern fixtures throughout.

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11L features dramatic twelve-foot-high ceilings and eight-foot-high windows with south, east, and northern exposures, perched high up on the corner of the building and completely flooded with open sky and sunlight, allowing for perfect unblocked cityscape views. This designer apartment with attention paid to every detail is created for maximum functionality and is of the highest quality. A unique luxuriously renovated gem awaits the discerning buyer in the prestigious full service Murray Hill Plaza, a centrally located midtown address.