1939

General view - [Manhattan - 34th Street (East) - Harriet Hubbard Ayer building.]

321 East 34th Street (Harriet Hubbard Ayer Building) north side, between First and Second Avenues, showing a (general view westward) and viewing to the north, across Second Avenue and its "El" line. On this side of same, appears, the westerly portion of St. Gabriel's Park (35th-36th Street's) and the future plaza of the Midtown-Queens Tunnel (36th-37th Street's). At the right background beyond this section of Murray Hill, are the skyscrapers forming the 42nd Street outline. The bases of these in View 3 are, from left to right respectively, the Lincoln, the Chanin, the Chrysler and the News Buildings. October 13, 1939 Views 1, 2, 3 P. L. Sperr

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection