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Park Avenue & 36th Street, Manhattan

15 historical photos taken here between 1921 and 1946, oldest first.

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  • Manhattan: 36th Street - Park Avenue, 1921

    Manhattan: 36th Street - Park Avenue

    1921

  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 36th Street, 1925–1928

    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 36th Street

    1925; 1928

  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 36th Street (East), 1929

    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 36th Street (East)

    1929

  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 36th Street, 1931

    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 36th Street

    1931

  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 36th Street, 1931

    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 36th Street

    1931

  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 36th Street, 1931–1938

    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 36th Street

    1931; 1937; 1938

  • Manhattan: 36th Street - Park Avenue, 1931

    Manhattan: 36th Street - Park Avenue

    1931

  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 36th Street, 1933

    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 36th Street

    1933

  • Manhattan: 36th Street - Park Avenue, 1933

    Manhattan: 36th Street - Park Avenue

    1933

  • Manhattan: 36th Street (East) - Park Avenue, 1937

    Manhattan: 36th Street (East) - Park Avenue

    1937

  • 39 East 36th Street - Park Avenue, 1944-09-27

    39 East 36th Street - Park Avenue

    1944-09-27

  • 36 East 36th Street (Madison Avenue - Park Avenue), 1946-01-18

    36 East 36th Street (Madison Avenue - Park Avenue)

    1946-01-18

  • Manhattan: 36th Street (East) - Park Avenue

    Manhattan: 36th Street (East) - Park Avenue

    Unknown

  • Manhattan: 36th Street (East) - Park Avenue

    Manhattan: 36th Street (East) - Park Avenue

    Unknown

  • Manhattan: 36th Street (East) - Park Avenue

    Manhattan: 36th Street (East) - Park Avenue

    Unknown

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Photos: The New York Public Library, Milstein Collection

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Manhattan: Park Avenue - 36th Street, 1931–1938

Photo 6 of 15 at Park Avenue & 36th Street, Manhattan

Manhattan: Park Avenue - 36th Street

1931; 1937; 1938

Park Avenue, west side, from 36th to 39th Streets, showing skyscrapers in the background. On the S.W. corner of 37th Street stands the new Union League clubhouse. The rear of the buildings on the east side of Madison Avenue, from 37th to 38th Streets, are plainly visible; from south to north the are: the old Delmar residence, occupied by the National Democratic Club, the Hotel Duane in the middle of the block, and the Allerton Fraternity Clubs Building occupying the S.E. corner of 38th Street and Madison Avenue where the old South Church used to stand. To the left of this, on the S.W. corner of Madison Avenue and 38th Street, stands the old Heckscher building, erected 1916 on the site of the Theodore A. Havemeyer mansion. The five skyscrapers, from left to right, are No. 10 East 40th Street (1928), 500 Fifth Avenue at the N.W. corner of 42nd Street (1930), the New York Trust Company's tower nearing completion on the S.E. corner of Madison and 40th Street, the Lefcourt Colonial Building at the N.W. corner of Madison Avenue and 41st Street, and the Lincoln Building at 60 East 42nd Street, both the latter completed in 1929. February 27, 1931. P.L. Sperr, Photographer.

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