Korom, Joseph.The American skyscraper, 1850-1940: a celebration of height (англ.). — Branden Books, 2008. — P. 199. — ISBN 978-0-8283-2188-4.«In 1936, the Manhattan Life Insurance Company relocated its offices to One-Hundred-Twenty West 57th Street in midtown Manhattan. Then, catastrophe arrived when the building was only 69 years old; in a 1963 act of utter desecration, the Manhattan Life Insurance Building was demolished.»