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Lonely Planet review

The hall has been home to New York's government since 1812. In keeping with the half-baked civic planning that has often plagued large-scale New York projects, officials neglected to finish the building's northern side in marble, gambling that the city would not expand uptown. The mistake was finally rectified in 1954.

Architectural critic Ada Louise Huxtable called it a 'symbol of taste, excellence and quality not always matched by the policies inside'.