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Manhattan: Park Avenue - 53rd Street (East)

1936

Manhattan: Park Avenue - 53rd Street (East)

Park Ave., north from East 53rd Street. Buildings lining both sides of this avenue are mainly apartment houses. The spired building at the N.E. corner of 57th Street is the Ritz Tower, an apartment hotel. 1936. W.P.A. Photo. Federal Writers Project.

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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