1928

Manhattan: Lexington Avenue - 56th Street

Lexington Ave., south from, but not including East 56th Street, showing (right foreground) the Ahavath Chesed Sha'ar Hashomaim Synagogue, at the S.W. corner of East 55th Street. This congregation is reformed, and conducts its services in English. It was organized in 1844. Silhouetted across the skyline, from right to left, are The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; the 50-story General Electric Co. Building; Chanin; Chrysler and St. Peter's German Lutheran Church. February 7, 1937. P. L. Sperr.

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection