VINTAGE MANHATTAN SKYLINE

The 50-story aluminium and glass 1 New York Plaza. Intersection of South and Whitehall streets. William Lescaze & Associates-Nevio Maggiora-Kahn & Jacobs, architects. 1967-1969.

View looking northwest of the steel skeleton for 1 New York Plaza, under construction. Circa, September, 1968.

Photo: Wurts Brothers/Museum of the City of New York.

Source: Museum of City of New York.

NOTE: The image was made with screenshots in the MS-Paint program. It is only shown for educational and non-profit purposes, giving credit to its real owners.

The 45-story concrete and glass 345 Park Avenue Building. Occuping entire block between Park to Lexington avenues and 51st to 52nd streets. Emery Roth & Sons, 1967-1969.

View looking northeast of the new 345 Park Avenue Building under construction. Circa, March 1968. 

The Seagram (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe-Phillip Johnson-Kahn & Jacobs, 1958) and First National City Bank (Carson & Lundin-Kahn & Jacobs, 1961) are at left. The Art Deco´s General Electric Building (Cross & Cross, 1931) are at right with St. Bartholomew’s Church shows below it.

Photo: Wurts Brothers/Museum of the City of New York.

Source: Museum of City of New York.

NOTE: The image was made with screenshots in the MS-Paint program. It is only shown for educational and non-profit purposes, giving credit to its real owners.

Lower Manhattan Financial District skyline and Brooklyn Bridge. View looking southwest from East River. Spring, 1968.

Photo: Frans Stich, Jr. (?) 

Source: Consultor Combi Visual. Vol. 2.  Barcelona, Ed. Baber, S.A., 1990.

The 59-story Pan American World Airways Headquarters Building, above Grand Central Station. 200 Park Avenue, between east 43rd to 45th streets. Emery Roth & Sons: Architects. Walter Gropius and Pietro Belluschi: Consultant Architects. 1959-1963.

Aerial view looking north of the new Pan Am Building under construction, in Summer, 1962, with the Union Carbide Building (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1960; demolished in 2019-21) above it.

Photo: Charles E. Rotkin/Corbis.

Source: Howard, M. J. "New York. The Growth of the City". New Jersey, Chartwell Books, Inc. 2007.

Aerial view looking north of Manhattan island. Late, 1961.

Photo: Bettmann/Corbis.

Source: Howard, M. J. "New York. The Growth of the City". New Jersey, Chartwell Books, Inc. 2007.

Night view looking southwest of Midtown Manhattan's Rockefeller Center and Avenue of the Americas skyscraper cluster from West New York, New Jersey, spring, 1965.

Buildings are, at left the Mutual of New York (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1950) and Seagram (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe-Phillip Johnson-Kahn & Jacobs, 1958) and the ABC Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1965) under construction. At the center are the New York Hilton Hotel (William B. Tabler-Harrison & Abramovitz, 1963), the new CBS Building (Eero Saarinen Associates, 1965), the J.C. Penney Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1965), Americana Hotel (Morris Lapidus & Associates Kornblath, Harle & Liebman, 1962), and the Equitable Life Assurance Building (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1961). At right are the Rockefeller Center’s Time & Life (Harrison & abramovits, 1959) and the R.C.A. (Associated Architects, 1933). Behind them can be seen the Union Carbide Building (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1960, demolished in 2021).

Photo: Acacia Card Company, New York, N.Y.

Midtown Manhattan skyscrapers. View looking north from the 86th floor observatory of the Empire State Building. Spring, 1968.

Buildings under construction at left, are, the 45-story Interchem Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1969) at foreground, and the 50-story Burlington House Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1969) at background. In the center, at background the Rockefeller Center complex with R.C.A. Building (Associates Architects, 1933) and the new 50-story General Motors Building (Edward Durell Stone-Emery Roth & Sons, 1968) nearing completion dominates the skyline. At foreground is the 58-story 500 Fifth Avenue Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931). At right are the new ITT North America Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1967), the 41-story Bankers Trust Annex Building (Emery Roth & Sons,1968) under construction, and the Union Carbide Building (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1960, demolished in 2021). On foreground are the steel skeleton for the new Emigrant Savings Bank Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1969) under construction and the 42-story 330 Madison Avenue Building (Kahn & Jacobs, 1964).

Photo: Unknown (amateur Kodachrome slide)

Aerial view looking northwest of Grand Central district skyscrapers in Autumn, 1966.

On foreground: The Pan Am Building (Walter Gropius-Emery Roth & Sons-Pietro Belluschi, 1963) are at left. The Chrysler Building (William Van Allen, 1930) are at right.

At backrgound, the modern towers of Park Avenue are visible, with the Union Carbide Building (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1960, demolished in 2021) at center; the new  245 Park Avenue Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1967) nearing completion and the Chemical Bank New York Trust Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1964) are at right.

Photo: Acacia Card Company, New York, N.Y.

Aerial view looking southwest of Midtown Manhattan. Summer, 1964.

Photo: Alfred Mainser, Inc.

A couple enjoyed the evening view of Midtown Manhattan from the Beekman Tower Hotel roof. Spring, 1964. 

View looking soutwest with the Empire State (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) and Chrysler (William Van Allen, 1930) buildings, at left, dominates the glittering skyline. The Pan Am Building (Walter Gropius-Emery Roth & Sons-Pietro Belluschi, 1963) are at right.

Photo: T.W.A.

Source: National Geographic Magazine, August, 1965.

Night view of Midtown Manhattan skyscrapers from the tio if Beekman Tower Hotel. Spring 1964. View looking west.

The new 38-story U.S. Plywood Building (William Lescaze, 1964) are on the left with the new 50-story Chemical Bank New York Trust Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1964) dehind it. The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (Schultze & Weaver, 1931) and General Electric Building (Cross & Cross, 1931) are on the center of picture. Buildings on right is the Seagram (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe-Phillip Johnson-Kahn & Jacobs, 1958) and First National City Bank (Carson & Lundin- Kahn & Jacobs, 1961).

Photo: Van Phillips/Owen Thomas.

Souce: Phillips, Van; Thomas, Owen. “El Mundo en Color”. México, Organización Editorial Novaro, 1967.

Night view looking east of Mdtown Manhattan skyscrapers from the top of New York Hilton hotel. Spring, 1964.

Photo: Peter Fink

Source: Wagner, Robert F.; Peterson, Joyce; Fink, Peter. “New York que j’aime…”. Paris, Editions Sun, 1964.

The 43-story black-tinted glass and aluminium curtian-wall facade Burroughs Building. 605 Third Avenue, east side between 39th to 40th streets. Emery Roth & Sons, 1961-1963.

The Burroughs Building in this view looking north from the corner of Third Avenue and 40th Street. Summer, 1966.

Photo: Otis Elevator, Co.

Source: Architectural Record, January, 1967.

Lower Manhattan skyline and Brooklyn Bridge. View looking southwest from Manhattan Bridge’s Brooklyn approach. Spring, 1966.

Photo: Unknown.

Source: Russoli, Franco; Negri, Renata; Tentori, Francesco. "L'Arte Moderna". No. 96. Vol. XI. Milán, Italia. Fratelli Fabbri Editori, 1967.

The 59-story Pan American World Airways Headquarters Building, above Grand Central Station. 200 Park Avenue, between east 43rd to 45th streets. Emery Roth & Sons: Architects. Walter Gropius and Pietro Belluschi: Consultant Architects. 1959-1963.

View looking northeast of the Pan Am Building (Walter Gropius-Emery Roth & Sons-Pietro Belluschi, 1963) before its opening with the Chrysler Building (William Van Allen, 1930) at right. Early, 1963.

Photo: Unknown.

Source: Progressive Architecture, September, 1963

The 45-story Rockefeller Center’s Sperry Rand Building. 1290 Avenue of the Americas between east 51st to 52th streets. Emery Roth & Sons, architects. Harrison & Abramovitz, consultant architects, 1961-1963.

View looking southeast of the Sperry Rand Building, in late Summer, 1963. In foreground, the precast concrete structure for the CBS Building (Eero Saarinen Associates, 1965), under construction, began to riese up. 

Photo: Wurts Brothers/Museum of the City of New York.

Aerial view looking north of Wall Street area skyscrapers, in Spring, 1960.

The new 64-story  One Chase Manhattan Plaza (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1961) nearing completion is visible at center of the picture.

Photo: Fairchild Aerial Surveys.

Source: William Cole y Julia Colmore "New York in Photographs" (New York, Simon & Schuster, 1961).