Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 40th Street

1940

Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 40th Street

Fifth Avenue, west side, from 40th to 42nd Streets, showing the front of the New York Public Library the morning after a snowstorm. The view is northward on the esplanade frontage, with 42nd Street and its towering 500-Fifth Avenue Building on the right. February 16, 1940 Nathan Schwartz New York Public Library Photostat Division

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection