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Midtown Manhattan’s Grand Central district skyscrapers. View looking northeast from the 55th floor of the Empire State Building. Early, 1931.
Photo: Library of Congress.
Source: Ric Burns, James Sanders, Lisa Ades, “New York, an Illustrated History”. (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1999).
The 43-story 275 Madison Avenue tower. Madison Avenue between East 39th to 40th Street, Kenneth Franzheim, 1930-1931. View looking northwest from the corner of Park Avenue and East 38th. Street in Summer, 1943.
The 43-story 275 Madison Avenue Building. Madison Avenue, southeast corner with East 40th Street. Kenneth Franzhein, 1930-1931. View looking north from 38th Street. Circa, 1936.
Photo: Berenice Abbott
Source: Bonnie Yochelson "Berenice Abbott: Changing New York" (New York, The New Press, The Museum of the City of New York. 2008).
The 56-story Art Deco’s Chanin Building. 122 East 42nd Street, on the west side of Lexington Avenue between 41st. to 42nd. Streets. Irwin S. Chanin-Sloan & Robertson, architects, 1928.
View looking southwest from 42nd Street and Third Avenue, in Spring, 1954. The parking lot in foreground, below Lexington Avenue will be replace by the future Socony-Mobil 45-story skyscraper.
Buildings behind Chanin Building are 275 Madison Avenue (Kenneth Franzheim, 1931) and 100 Park Avenue (Kahn & Jacobs, 1949) at left, and Lincoln Building (James Edwin Ruthver Carpenter, 1930) at rfight.
Photo: Wurts Bros.
Source: Donald Martin Reynolds, "The Architecture of New York City. History and Views of Important Structures, Sites and Symbols" (New York. Macmillan. 1984).
