Manhattan: 39th Street (East) - 2nd Avenue
E. 39th Street (foreground, center) west from Second Avenue as viewed from the roof top of No. 301 E. 38th Street. Over towering the East Side tenements are the Grand Central skyscrapers, prominent of which are the 10 East 40th Street Bldg. (left) and the Chanin Bldg. (right). Note the Hotel Commodore to the right of the latter. September 11, 1931. P.L. Sperr
Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection
