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11th Street & 5th Avenue, Manhattan

9 historical photos taken here between 1921 and 1933, oldest first.

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  • Manhattan: 11th Street - 5th Avenue, 1921

    Manhattan: 11th Street - 5th Avenue

    1921

  • Manhattan: 11th Street - 5th Avenue, 1921

    Manhattan: 11th Street - 5th Avenue

    1921

  • Manhattan: 11th Street - 5th Avenue, 1921

    Manhattan: 11th Street - 5th Avenue

    1921

  • Manhattan: 11th Street - 5th Avenue, 1921

    Manhattan: 11th Street - 5th Avenue

    1921

  • Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 11th Street, 1927

    Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 11th Street

    1927

  • Manhattan: 11th Street (East) - 5th Avenue, 1931

    Manhattan: 11th Street (East) - 5th Avenue

    1931

  • Manhattan: 11th Street (East) - 5th Avenue, 1931

    Manhattan: 11th Street (East) - 5th Avenue

    1931

  • Manhattan: 11th Street - 5th Avenue, 1933

    Manhattan: 11th Street - 5th Avenue

    1933

  • Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 11th Street

    Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 11th Street

    Unknown

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Manhattan: 11th Street - 5th Avenue, 1933

Photo 8 of 9 at 11th Street & 5th Avenue, Manhattan

Manhattan: 11th Street - 5th Avenue

1933

11th Street, west from Fifth Avenue, showing the 40 Fifth Avenue apartment house (erected 1928) on the S.W. corner and part of the First Presbyterian Church (erected 1845) on the N.W. corner. In the background may be seen the Sixth Avenue Elevated, then St. Vincent's Hospital on the N.E. corner of 11th Street and Seventh Avenue, and the building on the N.W. corner of Greenwich Avenue and 11th Street. In the right foreground, on the N.E. corner, may be seen one of those bronze traffic signals which were installed on Fifth Avenue during Mayor James J. Walker's administration. June 11, 1933. P. L. Sperr.

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