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Park Avenue & 41st Street, Manhattan

94 historical photos taken here between 1870 and 1936, oldest first.

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  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street, 1870

    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

    1870

  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street, 1870

    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street, 1901

    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - between 41st and 42nd Streets., 1913

    Manhattan: Park Avenue - between 41st and 42nd Streets.

    1913

  • Manhattan: Pershing Square - 41st Street (East), 1914

    Manhattan: Pershing Square - 41st Street (East)

    1914

  • Manhattan: Pershing Square - 41st Street (East), 1914

    Manhattan: Pershing Square - 41st Street (East)

    1914

  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street, 1914

    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

    1914

  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street, 1918

    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

    1918

  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street, 1918–1933

    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

    1918; 1927; 1933

  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street, 1919

    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street, 1920

    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

    1920

  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street, 1922

    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street, 1922

    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street, 1922

    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street, 1922

    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street, 1922

    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street, 1922

    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street, 1922

    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street, 1922

    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street, 1922

    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street, 1922

    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street, 1922

    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street, 1922

    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street, 1922

    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street, 1922

    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street, 1922

    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street, 1922

    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

    1923

  • Manhattan: 41st Street - Park Avenue

    1928

  • Manhattan: Pershing Square - 41st Street (East)

    1931

  • Manhattan: Pershing Square - 41st Street

    1931

  • Manhattan: Pershing Square - 41st Street

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  • Manhattan: Pershing Square - 41st Street

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  • Manhattan: Pershing Square - 41st Street

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  • Manhattan: Pershing Square - 41st Street

    1933; 1934

  • Manhattan: Pershing Square - 41st Street

    1933; 1934

  • Manhattan: Pershing Square - 41st Street

    1933; 1934

  • Manhattan: Pershing Square - 41st Street (East)

    1936

  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

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Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street, 1920

Photo 11 of 94 at Park Avenue & 41st Street, Manhattan

Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

1920

Pershing Square, Park Avenue from 41st to 42nd Streets, looking west at the Hotel Belmont (1906-31) from the vacant lot where the Grand Union Hotel used to stand and where the Pershing Square building will be erected. The name Pershing Square, after General Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Force, was applied to this block about the time of the Armistice. The Pershing Square viaduct, shown here, conducted automobile traffic from Park Avenue and 40th Street across 42nd Street and around the left side of the Grand Central Station to Vanderbilt Avenue and 45th Street. As shown here it is quite new. The covered stairway coming up out of the vacant lot in the foreground is an entrance to the new Lexington Avenue Interborough Subway, opened in the summer of 1918. On the S.W. corner of 41st Street may be seen part of the old Murray Hill Hotel; and west on 42nd Street the Hotel Manhattan on the N. W. corner of Madison Avenue, later to be remodelled into an office building and uptown office for the National City Bank. The small building on the N. E. corner of Madison Avenue and 42nd Street is shortly to be demolished and replaced by the Liggett Drug building. About 1920. Gift of E.M. Jenks.

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