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NEW YORK AP — An Italian real estate investor has bought a majority stake in the triangular landmark Flatiron Building and plans to turn it into a luxury hotel.
Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009
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When I complain about being photographed again at the Flatiron Building, the guard is sympathetic.
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Earlier this summer, an Italian investment group bought a majority stake in the Flatiron Building and the Abu Dhabi Investment Council purchased a 75 percent stake in the Chrysler Building.
'Far East' Fund to Take $200 M. Stake in Leviev's New York Towers 2008
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Near the Flatiron Building, Alain announced that the ruling political party in Ivory Coast had just called for French troops to abandon their peacekeeping mission and leave the country.
New York World 2006
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But that building was part of the lighthouse-on-the-roof ideal; same as Woolworth's cathedral he built out of his poor folks nickels and dimes, the first truly tall building worthy of being called a skyscraper, though the Flatiron Building way on uptown on Fifth Avenue is considered the world's first skyscraper.
Who Are You? #2 The Daily Growler 2006
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Flatiron Building, with its impious, cloud-piercing architecture looming mistily above them on the opposite delta, might well have stood for the tower of Babel, whence these polyglot idlers had been called by the winged walking delegate of the Lord.
Strictly business: more stories of the four million O. Henry 1886
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NEW YORK (AP) - An Italian real estate investor has bought a majority stake in the triangular landmark Flatiron Building and plans to turn it into a luxury hotel.
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The Flatiron Building, which earned its name because it's shaped like an old-fashioned clothes iron, was erected in 1902 and was the world's first steel-frame skyscraper.
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The Flatiron Building, which earned its name because it's shaped like an old-fashioned clothes iron, was erected in 1902 and was the world's first steel-frame skyscraper.
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NEW YORK (AP) - An Italian real estate investor has bought a majority stake in the triangular landmark Flatiron Building and plans to turn it into a luxury hotel.
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