First Avenue and East 36th Street. Photo marked "1976". Originally home to St. Gabriel's Park. Much of the park's land was ceded for the construction of the Queens Midtown Tunnel in 1938. Site renamed...
Empire State Building, Fifth Avenue and 34th Street - southwest corner. Empire State Building built: 1929-1931. Architects: Shreve, Lamb & Harmon. Chief designer: William Lamb. The 1,250 foot tall sky...
Fifth Avenue and 39th Street - northeast corner. The Mid-Manhattan Library occupies the former Arnold Constable building, a six-story Beaux Arts structure. Architect: T. Joseph Bartley. Built on the s...
Keyser Estate, Park Avenue and 40th Street, from D.T. Valentine's Manual, 1865. Caption reads: The Major & Knapp, Eng. Mf'g & Lith. Co. 449 Broadway, N.Y. ; For D.T. Valentine's Manual 1865; The Keyse...
Princeton Club, Park Avenue at E. 39th Street, 1930. View up Park Avenue from E. 39th Street with the Princeton Club (center), the Murray Hill Hotel (behind), and Grand Central Terminal (background). ...
Grand Union Hotel, Park Avenue between 41st and 42nd Streets, east side, 1914. Grand Central Terminal partially visible on the left. Foreground is the Grand Union Hotel; Built: 1872; Razed: 1914; Arch...
Park Avenue and East 41st Street, 1976. Grand Central Terminal in background. Pershing Square Building; Built: 1923; Architects: York & Sawyer. Built on the site of the Grand Union Hotel. The U-shaped...
Drawing of the Architects Building, northeast corner of Park Avenue and 40th Street, 1913. Grand Central Terminal at the left. The Architects Building; Built: 1912. Razed: 1979. Architects: Ewing & Ch...
Drawing of old carriage houses, 155-161 East 35th Street, looking west from Third Avenue, 1935. Minor tears on bottom center of drawing. Group of four carriage houses. 155 and 157 E. 35th Street, buil...
Fifth Avenue and West 35th Street, 2008, looking south. Southwest corner of Fifth Avenue and 35th Street. In the foreground is the Acker, Merral & Condit Building. Built by Boehm & Coon : 1908; Archit...
Morgan Library and J.P. Morgan home; 36th Street looking west from Park Avenue, 1920. Library built 1903-1906 ; Architect: Charles McKim of McKim, Meade & White. J.P. Morgan's home, partially visible ...
Park Avenue and East 34th Street. Photo marked "1976". The Met Life Building, at 200 Park Avenue, is visible in the background. Originally: Pan Am Building. Built: 1963. Architects: Emery Roth & Sons,...
The Church of the Messiah, Park Avenue and East 34th Street. Dedicated 1868. Railroad extends north to 42nd Street, 1890. The residence on the left is the site of the Vanderbilt Hotel. Passenger visib...
Knickerbocker Trust Company - succeeded the Stewart Mansion at Fifth Avenue and 34th Street, 1910. Northwest corner of 5th Avenue and 34th Street. Knickerbocker Trust Building, Built: 1902-1904; Archi...
Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. Photo marked "1976." Northwest corner of 5th Avenue and 34th Street. Previously the site of the Knickerbocker Trust Company Building.