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Vanderbilt Avenue & 43rd Street, Manhattan

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  • Manhattan: Vanderbilt Avenue - 43rd Street, 1920

    Manhattan: Vanderbilt Avenue - 43rd Street

    1920

  • Manhattan: Vanderbilt Avenue - 43rd Street, 1931

    Manhattan: Vanderbilt Avenue - 43rd Street

    1931

  • Manhattan: South Ferry

    Manhattan: South Ferry

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Manhattan: Vanderbilt Avenue - 43rd Street, 1931

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Manhattan: Vanderbilt Avenue - 43rd Street

1931

Vanderbilt Avenue, west side, from 43rd to 46th Streets, showing the Grand Central Station on the east side and the tower of the New York Central Building (1928). On the west side from 43rd to 44th Streets stands the Hotel Biltmore, erected 1913-14. Contemporary with it are the Yale Club on the N.W. corner of 44th Street and the Vanderbilt Concourse Building on the S.W. corner of 45th Street. From 45th to 46th Streets is shown the Vanderbilt Avenue side of the Hotel Roosevelt, a new hotel opened September 1924. August 25, 1931. P. L. Sperr, Photographer.

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