1939

Manhattan: 53rd Street (West) - 6th Avenue

West 53rd Street, east from Sixth Avenue, showing at the left and right respectively, buildings at the N.E. and S.E. corners. The buildings to the rear of the latter are being removed to permit tunnelling for the eastward curve of the Sixth Avenue line of the Municipal Subway. View 2 is photographed across the Avenue, from the west side of same. Note the portion of the R. K. O. Bldg. in Rockefeller City at the upper right. April 20, 1939 August 3, 1940 P. L. Sperr

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection