It should come as no surprise that many, many commenters named this building as the most unappealing in the city. (Its creation famously inspired OG archicritic Ada Louise Huxtable to write, "We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tin-horn culture.") And the descriptions commenters gave were perhaps not as eloquent, but were still colorful: "it's horrid inside and out"; "MSG is bad for your health"; and "it replaced a beautiful building, the original Penn Station, not the current commuter snake pit."

Coming in just behind MSG—and your Curbed NY editor's pick for the city's ugliest building—is the Verizon tower at 375 Pearl Street, a white monolith that's made all the less attractive by the huge red "Verizon" logo emblazoned on it. Even though it's in the midst of a makeover, it still looks like a supervillain's lair—and really, the new glass addition isn't exactly helping that image.

Commenters were no less disparaging of the beleaguered Port Authority Bus Terminal, which one person referred to as a "piece of trash." Even though Port Authority wants to reimagine the ailing building, plans to do so are currently mired in a battle between the transit organization, and city and state officials. Same as it ever was, same as it ever was.

"Nothing redeeming about it," one commenter said of this mid-1970s skyscraper. "From its orientation and complete disregard for the street to seven or eight stories of blank facade." It does indeed stick out—a modernist monolith on otherwise staid Park Avenue. Fun fact: the architecture firm that designed it, Shreve, Lamb and Harmon, is the same firm responsible for the Empire State Building. Who knew?

Frank Gehry's sole New York City skyscraper is the rental tower at 8 Spruce Street in Lower Manhattan, and though it's generally regarded by critics as a nice enough building—the Times's Nicolai Ouroussoff called it "the finest skyscraper to rise in New York since Eero Saarinen’s CBS building went up 46 years ago"—others aren't as complimentary. Several Curbed commenters called the twisted metal tower out as their least favorite, with one giving it the moniker "Gehry's metal turd." Welp.

Designed by Arquitectonica, the colorful hotel at Eighth Avenue and 43rd Street has never been especially popular, least of all with Curbed commenters; several named it as the city's least appealing building. But it inspired a glorious quote from former Times architecture critic Herbert Muschamp in 2002: "This is New York. We live in one great ugly town. Not being too hung up on beauty is what makes life here possible, even thrilling. In exchange for surrendering refinement, we get a kind of urban poetry that is the envy of the world. Sometimes it takes outsiders to see it. Often, outsiders introduce new rhymes. The beauty resides, in some sense, in staying an outsider. The Westin is the consummate outsider's hotel." Lovely words about an un-lovely building.

Less a single building and more a cluster of uninspired towers, the Downtown Brooklyn skyline was named by commenters as being blah, but it also has more famous detractors. Deborah Berke recently called it "banal," and the Wall Street Journal examined the reasons why it lacks a distinctive profile—and the answer was, unsurprisingly, money.

The spire of One World Trade Center is a point of contention with commenters, who called it "atrocious" and "embarrassing for the tallest structure in New York." The spire that tops the skyscraper was initially supposed to be covered in an ornamental shell, but the developers cut that at the last minute to save costs—a move that many, including building architect David Childs (of Skidmore Owings & Merrill), decried. Now, it's a stark, skinny piece of metal that helps push the supertall to its symbolic height (oy) of 1,776 feet. "A building of this prominence and symbolism should be better," said one commenter.

No, not the grand old Great Hall—the Cooper Union building that commenters can't stand is the new, metal-sheathed structure at 41 Cooper Square, designed by Pritzker Prize winner Thom Mayne. Not everyone agrees that it's an eyesore, though; no less an authority than Ada Louise Huxtable praised the building when it opened.

Specifically, the curved glass tower at 445 Lafayette Street, a glass-covered behemoth in the otherwise low-slung East Village. Commenters hate it, and archicritic Paul Goldberger especially hated it when it opened more than a decade ago. His New Yorker takedown of the building, titled "Green Monster," criticizes Charles Gwathmey's design as "an elf prancing among men." He continued, "Its shape is fussy, and the glass façade is garishly reflective: Mies van der Rohe as filtered through Donald Trump." Ouch.

We'll let the Curbed commenters take this one: "This is a giant pimple on the Lower East Side’s ass," one said. Okay then!

Ada Louise Huxtable called it "gigantically second rate." New Republic writer Wolf Von Eckhard criticized its "arrogant disregard for its surroundings." And more than 50 years after it rose on Park Avenue, the Pan Am building is still controversial—commenters in our informal poll namechecked it, and was even the subject of a design competition last year to reimagine its modern edifice. Of course, it's sort of unfair to deride the building too much—after all, it's sitting right behind Grand Central Terminal, widely considered one of the most beautiful buildings in the city, if not the world.