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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.

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.

Glass facades on 46th. Strreet between Park (left) and Third Avenue (right), Summer 1967.

Buildings from left to right are the 51-story 245 Park Avenue (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1967), 30-story 485 Lexington Avenue (Emery Roth & Sons, 1956) and 34-story 750 Third Avenue (Emery Roth & Sons, 1958).

Photo: Unknown.

Source: MIchele Salvati/Varios Autores. "El Acero en la Construcción Moderna. Buenos Aires, Ed. Víctor Lerú, 1976.

The 31-story 425 Park Avenue Building. Park Avenue between East 55 to 56th streets, (Kahn & Jacobs, 1955-1957. Now partially demolished). 

View of the 425 Park Avenue Building looking northeast in spring, 1957. Buildings at left (background) is the Universal Pictures Building (Kahn & Jacobs, 1947) and Ritz Tower (Emery Roth-Carrére & Hastings, 1925).

Photo: Unknown.

Source: "Welcome to New York. A New Information and Picture Guide" (New York. Hangstrom Company, 1960).

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.