1931

General view - Midtown Manhattan - East side.

A general view of the midtown Manhattan East Side zone in the Queensboro Bridge vicinity (59th Street). The photographer is viewing eastward towards same and its Queens side, from a point over Park Avenue and 53rd Street. The religious structures in the foreground are on Lexington Avenue; the synagogue being at the S.W. corner of 55th Street, and St. Peters German Lutheran Church at the S.E. corner of 54th St. At the East River are the identifiable items, the distinctive River House, the clustered apartment center, Sutton Place, and the units comprising the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical College center. 1931 Wurts Bros., photo

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection