Manhattan: Lexington Avenue - 49th Street, 1930

Manhattan: Lexington Avenue - 49th Street

Lexington Avenue, west side, from 49th to 50th Streets, showing the upper end of the Grand Central railroad yards in the block where the new Hotel Waldorf-Astoria is being erected. The cars in the right foreground are directly below the site of the Adams Express Building, which has just been demolished. The rest of the block was occupied by the railroad power plant and Y. M. C. A. March 4, 1930. P. L. Sperr.

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection

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