1906

Manhattan: Central Park West - 90th Street (West)

Central Park West, south from West 90th Street, showing a row of residential apartment structures facing the western side of Central Park. Enumerating same in their respective orders are: the Cayuga (No. 296-7), the New Windsor (No. 294-5), a hospital (5 story, No. 292-3), the Melbourne (No. 1 West 89th Street), the St. Urban (prominent structure with corner dome, No. 285), the Progress Club (No. 1 West 88th Street), the Minnewaska (No. 2 West 88th Street) and the Mohonk (No. 275). Building under construction is the 12 story Hotel Peter Stuyvesant, No. 2 West 86th Street, at the S.W. corner. Note the electric street car tracks on the easterly side of this thoroughfare. These were finally removed about 1933. April 1906. George L. Balgue.

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection