1923

Manhattan: Park Avenue - 45th Street

Park Avenue, north from and including 45th Street, showing the buildings on the east side of the Avenue, seen from the roof of the Grand Central Station, which appears in the center foreground. The area over the railroad yards is still open on the east side from 45th to 46th Streets and from 47th to 48th Streets, and on the west side from 45th to 47th Streets. The nearest building on the west side is the Hotel Marguery (about 1917) from 47th to 45th Streets. On the east side 247 Park Avenue, completed about 1922, and connected to the new Grand Central Palace in the Lexington Avenue half of the block, stands from 46th to 47th Streets. In the block from 48th to 49th Streets the new Park Lane apartment hotel may be seen under construction, and in the block directly north of it the Railroad Y.M.C.A. building, which is to be demolished in 1929 to make way for the new Waldorf-Astoria. These buildings hid St. Bartholomew's Church, so that the next visible building on the east side is the Hotel Ambassador (1910-20), on the block from 51st to 52nd Streets. To the right of the picture may be seen the new American Express Building from 45th to 46th Streets on Lexington Avenue, and behind it the tower of the Hotel Shelton, nearing completion, on the east side of Lexington Avenue from 47th to 48th Streets. On the horizon, dimly seen at the extreme right, is the Hell Gate Bridge, shown surprisingly large considering its actual distance. Compare this with the same scene in 1903. Winter 1923-4 Ewing Galloway, Photographer.

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection