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.