1936

General view - Midtown Manhattan - 42nd Street - [View from 444 Madison Avenue - 49th Street.]

A general view of the midtown Manhattan-42nd Street district as photographed southwestern from No. 444 Madison Avenue (at 49th Street). Fifth Avenue is in the center foreground. The Ampico Tower Bldg. is at the N.W. corner of 47th Street and same. The Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas is at 48th Street. To the left appear the upper stories of the outstanding No. 500 Fifth Avenue Bldg. and the Empire State Bldg. Note the clock-towered Paramount Bldg. and the dark McGraw Hill Bldg. in the right background. Beyond these is the Hudson River and its New Jersey shoreline. 1936 W. P. A., photo Federal Writers Project

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection