1930

General view - Downtown Manhattan - [View of skyline.]

A general view of the downtown skyline as photographed southward from the apartment building, No. 1 Fifth Avenue. From the left to the right the shadowy outlines are identified as, the American Sugar Refining Bldg. No 120 Wall St., the Municipal Bldg., the City Bank - Farmers Trust Co. Bldg. (under construction), the Bank of Manhattan Bldg., the Woolworth Bldg., the Singer Bldg., the New York Telephone Co. Bldg., the Western Union Bldg., and another New York Telephone Co. Bldg. Through the center foreground runs the old Sixth Avenue Elevated Line on West Broadway. Autumn 1930 Gift of Bernhard Hoffman William Frange, photo 94 Pineapple St., Bklyn, N.Y.

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection