1928

Manhattan: 8th Avenue - 31st Street (West)

Eighth Avenue (immediate foreground, street level not seen), and environs, from W. 31st (intersection at left), to 33rd (right) Streets, as viewed westward from the Equitable Life Insurance Co. Building on Seventh Avenue, and showing the quadrangular Post Office structure on the west side of this thoroughfare and the railroad yards behind same. View 2 emphasizes 33rd Street and includes in the foreground a corner of the Pennsylvania Station. The 22 story structure seen is the Printing Crafts Building and is between 33rd and 34th Streets. Note in the background the North (Hudson) River and the Jersey shoreline. April 2, 1928. Views 1 and 2 P.L. Sperr

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection