VINTAGE MANHATTAN SKYLINE

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.

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.

Vertical aerial view, looking north, of Park Avenue. Late Summer, 1966.

The Grand Central Terminal, the Pan Am Building (Walter Gropius-Emery Roth & Sons-Pietro Belluschi, 1963) and the New York General Building (Walter & Wetmore, 1929), are on foreground. The Union Carbide Building (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1960, now destroyed) is on the center, with the Lever House (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1952) and the DuMont Building (James Edwin Ruthven Carpenter, 1931) at background. The steel skeleton of Westvaco Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1967) under construction, the Chemical Bank New York Trust Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1964) and the new 245 Park Avenue Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1967) nearing completion are visibles at right, on foreground. Above them, at background, are the Waldorf Astoria Hotel (Schultze & Weaver, 1931), the Seagram Building (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe-Phillip Johnson-Kahn & Jacobs, 1958) and First National City Bank Building (Carson & Lundin-Kahn & Jacobs, 1961).

Photo: Howard Sochurek/John Hillelson Agency.

Source: John Oates. "La Estructura Vital". "La Vida en el Planeta Tierra. Vol. 16". Barcelona. Montaner y Simón, S.A. 1978.

Aerial view looking southwest of Midtown Manhattan skyscrapers. Autumn, 1966.

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

The 42-story brown-tinted glass and pre-cast concrete columns facade I.T.T. North America Building. 437 Madison Avenue, east side between 49th to 50th Streets. Emery Roth & Sons, 1966-1967.

Definitive architectural model for the I.T.T. North America Building. Early, 1966.

Photo: Emery Roth & Sons.

Source: Architectural Record, February 1966.

Aerial view looking northwest of Midtown Manhattan with Central Park on background. Autumn, 1966.

The Empire State Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) are at left, foreground. Rockefeller Center (Associated Architects, 1932-1940) and few new modern skyscrapers -many of them built in 1960s with the Time & Life (Harrison & Abramovitz, 1959), Equitable Life (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1961) and J.C. Penney (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1965) buildings- surrounding the complex, along Avenue of the Americas can be seen at center, with 500 Fifth Avenue tower (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) below them. Grand Central district’s skyscrapers, are at right, with Pan Am (Walter Gropius-Emery Roth & Sons-Pietro Belluschi, 1963), the new 245 Park Avenue (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1967), Chrysler (William Van Allen, 1930) and Mobil (Harrison & Abramovitz, 1956) buildings.

Photo: Unknown.

Source: "Deluxe Picture Book. New York City". New York, N.Y. Manhattan Post Card Pub. Co., Dexter Press, Inc. 1971.

The 35-story M.G.M. Building. 1350 Avenue of the Americas, between east 54th to 55th streets. Emery Roth & Sons, 1964-1966.

View of the M.G.M. Building’s main facade, at 55th Street. Summer, 1966.

Photo: Otis Elevators.

Source: Progressive Architecture, December 1966

Two visitors watching the view of Midtown Manhattan as seen from the interior of Phillip Johnson’s office on the top of Seagram Building, September, 1966. 

The view is looking northeast and show the 641 Lexington Avenue Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1964) on foreground, and the new 47-story The Excelsior Apartments (Philip Birnbaum & Associates, 1965-1967) under construction.

Photo: Unknown.

Source: A.I.A. Journal. October, 1966.

The northern section of Midtown Manhattan (foreground) and Upper East Side (at background) in its photozoom picture looking north from the Empire State Building. Summer, 1965.

The 500 Fith Avenue (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) are at foreground, at left; with the Corning Glass (Harrison & Abramovitz, 1959) and Squibb (Ely Jacques Kahn, 1930) behind it,. The towers at center are the Fuller (Walker & Gillette, 1929), 555 Madison Avenue (Morris Lapidus, 1962), Newsweek (Kohn, Vitola & Knight, 1931) and DuMont (James Edwin Ruthven Carpenter, 1931). The modern Lever House (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1952), Manufacturers Hanover Trust (Emery Roth & Sons, 1961) and ITT (Emery Roth & Sons, 1961) buildings can be seen at right.

Photo: Lufthansa. 

Source: Nueva Enciclopedia Universal Carrogio. Vol. 19. Barcelona, Carrogio, S.A. 1984.

Lower Manhattan’s Financial District skyscrapers from Brooklyn Bridge in this view looking southwest in May, 1966.

The City Bank Farmers Trust (Cross & Cross, 1931), Cities Service (Clinton & Russell, 1932) and 40 Wall Street (Henry Craig Severance-Yasuo Matsui, 1930) Art Deco towers are at left with the 80 Pine Street (Emery Roth & Sons, 1960) modern glass building. The One Chase Manhattan Plaza (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1961), the steel skeleton of Marine Midland Trust Building (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1967) under construction and the Home Insurance Plaza (Alfred Easton Poor, 1966) are at center of picture.

Photo: Ephraim Zackson.

Photo courtesy of  Saul Zackson/Flickr. 

Link: http://bit.ly/2Frhy5J

Midtown Manhattan skyline with Queensboro Bridge on foreground. View looking southwest from Queensbridge Park, Queens, in March, 1966.

Photo: Ephraim Zackson.

Photo courtesy of  Saul Zackson/Flickr.

Link: http://bit.ly/2oZOHLv

The 50-story Chemical Bank New York Trust Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1964) and the new 52-story 245 Park Avenue Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1967) under construction on foreground of this view of Park Avenue looking north, from the top of Pan Am Building, on May, 1966. The Lever House (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1952) are visible at top left, backround.

Photo: Ephraim Zackson.

Photo courtesy of  Saul Zackson/Flickr. 

Link: http://bit.ly/2tys0mh

The 52-story 245  Park Avenue (American Tobacco Headquarters) Building, that occupy the entire block between Park and Lexington avenues and 46th to 47 streets. Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, architects. 1965-1967.

The new 52-story 245 Park Avenue Building under construction in May, 1966. View looking northeast from the top of Pan Am Building with the 485 Lexington Avenue Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1956) at right.

Photo: Ephraim Zackson.

Photo courtesy of  Saul Zackson/Flickr.  

Link: (http://bit.ly/2p02Oka)

Area view looking northwest of Midtown Manhattan in Fall, 1966. The Empire State Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) are on the left. The original Rockefeller Center’s Art Deco buildings surrounding by new Avenue of the Americas’ modern skyscrapers are at center and the Pan Am (Walter Gropius-Emery Roth & Sons-Pietro Belluschi, 1963) and Chrysler (William Van Allen) buildings are at right with the new 51-story 245 Park Avenue Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1967) nearing completion between them.

Photo: Manhattan Post Card, Co-Dexter Press, Inc.

Aerial view of Midtown Manhattan skyscrapers looking northwest in Autumn of 1966. The Pan Am Building (Walter Gropius-Emery Roth & Sons-Pietro Belluschi, 1963) are on foreground, at center, with the Union Carbide (Skimdmore, Owings & Merrill, 1960) glass tower at right. The 70-story R.C.A. Building (Associated Architects, 1933) domninates Rockefeller Center’s Art Deco skyscrapers that be surrounding by the new and modern glass monoliths of Avenue of the Americas are on bakcground, above.

Photo: Unknown.

Source: “Biblioteca de los Conocimientos. Vol. 2”. (Barcelona, Spain, Plaza & Janes, 1973).

Night view of Park Avenue’s new 50-story glass supertowers from R.C.A. Building in the spring of 1966. View looking east showing the 52-story Union Carbide Building (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1960) on foreground, at center with the 50-story Chemical Bank New York Trust Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1964) behind it, and the new 51-story 245 Park Avenue Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1967) under construction at right.

Photo: Serraillier/Rapho.

Source: "Voyages Authour du Monde". Paris-Montreal. Sélection du Reader's Digest, 1968.