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Manhattan: 2nd Avenue - 53rd Street (East)

1940

Manhattan: 2nd Avenue - 53rd Street (East)

Second Avenue, west side, north from East 53rd Street. Overshadowing the tenements that line the Avenue is the old "El" line. View 2 is photographed from a point slightly northward and across 54th Street. April 10, 1940 Views 1,2 P. L. Sperr

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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