Author Jonathan Ames created a "Most Phallic Building" contest which followed an article he wrote for Slate magazine, in which he claimed that the Tower was the most phallic building he'd ever seen.
World Bank | Tower of London | Bank of America | Eiffel Tower | West Bank | Deutsche Bank | Bank of England | International Bank for Reconstruction and Development | African Development Bank | Asian Development Bank | Tower of Power | Inter-American Development Bank | bank | South Bank | Lloyds Bank | Tower Bridge | Lloyds Bank (historic) | European Bank for Reconstruction and Development | National Australia Bank | Tower Records | Chase (bank) | West African Development Bank | State Bank of India | Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce | Royal Bank of Canada | Commonwealth Bank | Bank of New Zealand | Bank of Montreal | Tower | Bank for International Settlements |
The skyline itself includes, from left to right, representations of a church spire (symbolizing Brooklyn, the "borough of churches"), the Williamsburgh Savings Bank building (tallest building in Brooklyn), the Woolworth Building, the Empire State Building, and the United Nations building.