These Are New York's Ugliest Buildings

NEW YORK, NY — If you think the circular, tinted-glass-covered complex housing Madison Square Garden and Penn Station is a blemish on New York City, then you're in good company. The World's Most Famous Arena tied for the title of New York's ugliest building on a recent Business Insider list.

The publication gave that dubious distinction to one building in each state — or two, in New York's case — based on input from readers.

A reader called the Penn/MSG building — which infamously replaced the beloved beaux arts train hub — "the armpits of New York City," while another said the current station is "ugly on a transcendant level."

The other half of the shared title belongs to 432 Park Ave., the brutally rectangular skyscraper that's also known as New York City's second-tallest building and the tallest residential building in the world.

One Business Insider reader said the building is their "sworn enemy." Another wrote that it "ruined" their views of the skyline from New Jersey.

See Business Insider's full list of each state's ugliest building here.

(Lead image: Madison Square Garden is pictured in New York City. Photo by Helmut Meyer zur Capellen / imageBROKER/Shutterstock)