If you look carefully, you can see the statue of William Penn immersed amongst the skyscrapers!
Atop Philadelphia City Hall stands a statue of William Penn, the city founder and original proprietor of the then-British colony of Pennsylvania (meaning "Penn's Woods").
For years, a "gentlemen's agreement" stated that the Philadelphia Art Commission would approve no building in the city which would rise above this statue.
This ended in March 1987, when a modern steel-and-glass skyscraper, One Liberty Place, opened three blocks away.
One Liberty Place is taller than City Hall by 397 feet (121 m), rising 945 feet (288 m) in height compared to the height of Penn's hat on City Hall, 547 feet (167 m).
Its sister skyscraper, Two Liberty Place, at 848 ft (258 m), followed in 1990.
The CURSE OF BILLY PENN was a curse used to explain the failure of major professional sports teams based in Philadelphia to win championships since the March 1987 construction of the One Liberty Place skyscraper, which exceeded the height of William Penn's statue atop Philadelphia City Hall.
The curse apparently ended on October 29, 2008, when the Philadelphia Phillies won the 2008 World Series, a year and four months after a statuette of the William Penn figure atop City Hall was affixed to the final beam during the Jun 2007 topping-off of the Comcast Center, currently the tallest building in the city.
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