1936

Manhattan: 12th Avenue - 55th Street

Twelfth Avenue, south from West 55th Street, showing constructional detail of the widening and improvement of this marginal thoroughfare. The West Side Vehicular Highway is being continued thru this view. At the left appears a portion of the new westerly frontage of Dewitt Clinton Park. Note the retaining wall. June 19, 1936 H. B. Hoffman, photo New York Historical Society

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection