William Zeckendorf, Sr. was one of America's master builders and real estate developers. Through his development company of Webb and Knapp (for which he began working in 1938 and which he purchased in 1949), he developed much of the New York City urban landscape. Zeckendorf also owned New York's Chrysler building, assembled the United Nations site along the East River and built the Mile High Center in Denver. Webb and Knapp is the development company of William Zeckendorf, which developed such notable places as: Roosevelt Airfield, site of the start of Charles Lindberghs and Amelia Earharts transatlantic flights. ... The city is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture, and is one of the worlds major global cities (along with London, Tokyo and Paris) with a virtually unrivaled collection of museums, galleries, performance venues, media outlets, international corporations, and stock exchanges. ...

Before his company's spectacular bankruptcy in 1965, he became the embodiment of glamorous real-estate dealmaking which included developing Roosevelt Airfield (where Charles Lindbergh began his transatlantic flight), acquiring the land for the United Nations in New York, and helped to advance and develop Long Island University. Architects I. M. Pei and Le Corbusier worked for Zeckendorf's many projects. Roosevelt Airfield was an airfield in Garden City, Nassau County, New York. ... Charles Lindbergh Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974), known as Lucky Lindy and The Lone Eagle , was a pioneering United States aviator famous for piloting the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927. ... Long Island University (LIU) is a private university located on Long Island in the U.S. state of New York. ... The Louvre Pyramid, Paris Ieoh Ming Pei (Chinese: 貝聿銘; Pinyin: ; b. ... Notre Dame du Haut Le Corbusier (October 6, 1887–August 27, 1965) was a Swiss architect famous for what is now called modernism or the International Style, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, and Theo van Doesburg. ...