The 28-story Corning Glass Building. 717 Fifth Avenue, southeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 56th Street. Harrison & Abramovitz, architects, 1957-1959.
View looking southeast of the Corning Glass Building from West 56th Street, in Spring, 1961, showing the new 555 Madison Avenue (John M. Kokkings-Morris Lapidus-Kornblath, Harle & Liebman, 1961) under construction.
Photo: Ezra Stoller.
Source: Stern, Robert. A.M. Mellins, Thomas. Fishman, David. "New York 1960. Architecture and urbanism between the Second World War and the Bicentennial" (New York. The Monacelli Press. 1997).