The Singer Building at Liberty Street and Broadway in Manhattan, New York, was an office building completed in 1908 as the headquarters of the Singer Manufacturing Company.

The building's architect, Ernest Flagg, was a supporter of height limitations and restrictive zoning, and showed his solution to tall-building crowding with the Singer's set-back design. The 12-story base of the building filled an entire blockfront, while the tower above was very narrow.

At 612 feet (187 m) above grade, the Singer Building was the tallest building in the world from its completion until the completion in 1909 of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower on Madison Avenue, again in Manhattan.

The building was demolished in 1968 as it was claimed to be functionally obsolete, and in order to make way for the U.S. Steel Building (currently known as One Liberty Plaza). The tower floors were squares only 65 feet (20 m) on a side. This made it almost the tallest building ever to be destroyed. It became the second such after the Avala TV Tower in Serbia was destroyed during a NATO bombing raid in 1999, until the September 11, 2001, collapse of the nearby World Trade Center. It is still the tallest building ever peacefully demolished.

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Image:Singer Building New York City 1908.jpg|The drawing of Singer Building.
Image:Singer City Investing Hudson Terminal 1909.jpg|The Singer Building with the Hudson River Terminal.
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Image:SingerBuilding15.jpg|The interior view of the Building.
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