1936

Manhattan: 49th Street (West) - 5th Avenue

10-24 West 49th Street, south side, west of Fifth Avenue, as seen across Rockefeller Plaza. New 45-story building under construction is a unit of Radio City and is located at 16 to 24 West 49th Street; the other numbers being the three, four-story buildings adjoining on the 'Fifth Avenue side. On the extreme left is the rear of the French Building, another unit. The lower stories of the 70 storied R.C.A. Building appears on the extreme right. 1936. W.P.A. Photo. Federal Writers Project.

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection