Today, the Chrysler Building faces a new challenge: It’s up for sale and skyline-lovers and architectural enthusiasts fear for its future.

The 1,046-foot-tall Chrysler Building, completed in May of 1930, was the pinnacle of both the then-unnamed Art Deco period and the skyscraper boom that rapidly transformed New York City’s skyline.

It’s the Chrysler Building’s time to shine. The Art Deco skyscraper, built in 1928, is getting a brand-new observation deck. The Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) unanimously approved ...

According to The Chrysler Building: Creating a New York Icon, Day by Day, Reynolds “asked him to design an 808-foot skyscraper with an illuminated glass dome for the 42nd Street site” in 1928.

The Chrysler Building, on Lexington Avenue at 42nd Street, was completed in the spring of 1930, but the most significant triumph in its construction had occurred several months before.

The Chrysler Building was created using roughly 400,000 rivets, 3,826,000 bricks, 3,862 windows and four banks of eight Otis Elevator Corporation elevators.

On the Chrysler Building’s official website, over 650,000 square feet — or more than half the total amount of space in the building — are listed as immediately available for rent, as of July.

According to The Chrysler Building: Creating a New York Icon, Day by Day, Reynolds “asked him to design an 808-foot skyscraper with an illuminated glass dome for the 42nd Street site” in 1928.