1928

Manhattan: 1st Ave. - 54th St. E.

First Avenue (right foreground), at the N.W. corner of E. 54th Street, showing East Side tenements against a back drop of Fifth Avenue hotels. The most prominent of these is the Ritz Tower. To the right and left respectively are the Pierre and the Savoy-Plaza. In the center is the Hotel Delmonico. Note the excavation in the right foreground and upon which will rise a modern apartment house as one of the forerunners of the rehabilitation of this Beekman Hill section. January 7, 1928 P. L. Sperr

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection