Manhattan: 12th Avenue - 38th Street

1939

Manhattan: 12th Avenue - 38th Street

Twelfth Avenue, east side, at West 38th Street, showing the New York Central Railroad yards at this location. In the center of these, on the west side of Eleventh Avenue, is the distinctive ventilator building of the Lincoln Tunnel under the North (Hudson) River. The vague online of the Empire State Building appears in the background. The photographer is viewing eastward. October 20, 1939. P. L. Sperr.

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection