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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

    1870

  • Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street, 1901

    Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

    1901

  • 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

    1919

  • 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, 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, 1922

    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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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

    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

    1931

  • Manhattan: Pershing Square - 41st Street

    1931

  • Manhattan: Pershing Square - 41st Street

    1933

  • 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

    Unknown

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

Photo 9 of 94 at Park Avenue & 41st Street, Manhattan

Manhattan: Park Avenue - 41st Street

1918; 1927; 1933

Park Avenue, 41st to 42nd Streets (the future Pershing Square), showing construction of viaduct for automobile traffic over the old northern entrance to the Murray Hill tunnel and around the western shoulder of the new Grand Central Station. Work on this project was commenced November 2, 1917. The Hotel Commodore, as shown here, is quite new. On the east side of Park Avenue, from 41st to 42nd Streets, the old Grand Union Hotel stood until its demolition in 1914; the southern end of the new East Side express station of the new subway, nearly ready to open, lies underneath. The old elevated station, originally only one end of a short shuttle, will stand here till 1924. Compare this with 1914, 1920, 1923, and later pictures. Early 1918. Brown Brothers.

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