Where is the location of the Flat Iron building?

Answer 1

The Flatiron Building is located at 23rd Street and Broadway. The exact address is 175 Fifth Avenue.

The reason that the address is on Fifth Avenue, not Broadway, has to do with the building's iconic triangular shape. It was built in a triangle shape because of Broadway. Except for Lower Manhattan, New York City is arranged on a square grid pattern. Broadway ruins this neat little grid pattern by running in a diagonal line north/south through practically all of Manhattan.

Since Broadway bisects some of the rectangular-shaped blocks diagonally, one large rectangular block becomes two smaller triangular blocks. There are more than a few of them dotted around the city, actually.

However, even though Broadway appears to cut diagonally through Manhattan, it actually runs in a straight, true north/south line up and down Manhattan and New York State.

Instead, it's Manhattan that's crooked. All of New York City is built on an eastward slant. Manhattan points northeast, not true north. Broadway starts out in Lower Manhattan and runs north all the way through Manhattan and then almost all the way up through New York State to Canada! It's not called Broadway the whole way, but it's the same street/road. It is the longest street in the world, actually.

So, the Flatiron building is located at the three-way intersection of Broadway, Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street. That is why it is perfectly correct to say "the Flatiron building is at 23rd and Broadway" even though the exact address is 175 Fifth Avenue.

Answer 2

The Flatiron building is located at 175 Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan, New York City and is considered to be a groundbreaking skyscraper. It is names Flatiron due to the shape of the building.