1936

Manhattan: Riverside Drive - 122nd Street

Riverside Drive, south from a point slightly north of West 122nd Street, showing, on the right, the Tomb of General U.S. Grant, in which the great Civil War hero and President of the U.S. with his wife, lie in two stone caskets on a sunken level open to public view; and on the left; Riverside Church (Baptist), at the S.E. corner of West 122nd Street. Contiguous to the latter is, the 7-story McGiffert Hall Building, at the S.W. corner of Claremont Ave. (extreme left). On the east side of Claremont Ave. are seen several low units of Union Theological Seminary. The Hudson River and the shore of the state of New Jersey appear on the right. 1936. W.P.A. Photo. Federal Writers Project.

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection