VINTAGE MANHATTAN SKYLINE

Midtown Manhattan skyscrapers. View looking north from the 86th floor observatory of the Empire State Building. Spring, 1968.

Buildings under construction at left, are, the 45-story Interchem Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1969) at foreground, and the 50-story Burlington House Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1969) at background. In the center, at background the Rockefeller Center complex with R.C.A. Building (Associates Architects, 1933) and the new 50-story General Motors Building (Edward Durell Stone-Emery Roth & Sons, 1968) nearing completion dominates the skyline. At foreground is the 58-story 500 Fifth Avenue Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931). At right are the new ITT North America Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1967), the 41-story Bankers Trust Annex Building (Emery Roth & Sons,1968) under construction, and the Union Carbide Building (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1960, demolished in 2021). On foreground are the steel skeleton for the new Emigrant Savings Bank Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1969) under construction and the 42-story 330 Madison Avenue Building (Kahn & Jacobs, 1964).

Photo: Unknown (amateur Kodachrome slide)

The 45-story Interchem Building. 1133 Avenue of the Americas, west side between 43rd to 44th streets. Emery Roth & Sons, 1967-1969.

View looking northwest of Interchem Building shortly before its completion, near Christmas, 1968.

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

Source: Museum of City of New York.

NOTE: The image was made with screenshots in the MS-Paint program. It is only shown for educational and non-profit purposes, giving credit to its real owners.

Aerial view of Midtown Manhattan looking north. Late Spring, 1970. 

The 102-story Empire State Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) are visible on the foreground, at center. Above it are the Rockefeller Center and Avenue of the Americas’ skyscraper corridor with the J.P Stevens Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1971) and Exxon Building (Harrison & Abramovitz, 1971) shows under construction. The steel skeleton under construction on the extreme left is the One Astor Plaza (Kahn & Jacobs, 1972). The General Motos Building (Edward Durell Stone-Emery Roth & Sons, 1968) are visible on the top of the picture, at center. Park Avenue skyscrapers with the Pan Am Building (Walter Gropius_Emery Roth & Sons-Pietro Belluschi, 1963) are visible at right,

Photo: Laurence Lowry-Rapho Guillumette.

Source: “El Mundo en que Vivimos. Vol. 5. América”. (Barcelona, Spain, Instituto Gallach de Librería y Ediciones, S.L.,1973).

New skyscrapers under construction and recently completed on Avenue of the Americas, in this night view looking northwest from Empire State Building. Spring, 1972.

The New York Telephone Building (Kahn & Jacobs, 1974) under construction are at left, foreground, and the new Uris Plaza (Emery Roth & Sons, 1972) are at background at north to Times Square. The Interchem (Emery Roth & Sons, 1969) and J.P. Stevens Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1971) are at center, with the steel skeleton of Rockefeller Center’s Celanese Building (Harrison, Abramovitz & Harris, 1974) under construction, rises up between both towers. The new W.R. Grace Building (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1972) nearing completion, are at rigth foreground, with the steel skeleton of 1166 Avenue of the Americas (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1974) rises up behind it. The new Rockefeller Center’s McGraw-Hill (Harrison, Abramovitz & Harris, 1972) and Exxon (HArrison, Abramovitz & Harris, 1971) buildings are visible at background.

Photo: Hugo Harrang.

Source: Gran Enclopedia Focus, Vol. 9. Barcelona, Argos Vergara, 1987.

Night view looking south of Midtown Manhattan from the 70 floor observatory of RCA Building in Rockefeller Center, in Autumn, 1972.

The 58-story 500 Fifth Avenue tower (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) are at left. The new 50-story Gordon Bunshaft’s W.R. Grace Building (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1972), recently completed, are at right, and in the center, the 102-story Empire State Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) dominates the skyline with the new 110-story Twin Towers of World Trade Center (Minoru Yamasaki & Associates-Emery Roth & Sons, 1973) nearing completion in background.

the new 45-story 1166 Avenue of the Americas (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1974) under construction, are seen at right, foreground, and above it, at background, are seen the 40-story New York Telephone Building (Kahn & Jacobs, 1974) nearing completion, with the 45-story Interchem Buildinh (Emery Roth & Sons, 1969) and the 57-story One Penn Plaza (Kahn & Jacobs, 1972).

Photo: Unknown.

Source: “Gran Atlas Enciclopédico Aguilar. Vol. 9. América”. (Madrid, Spain, Ed. Aguilar, S.A. de Ediciones. 1979)

Night view looking south of Midtown Manhattan, from Rockefeller Center’s R.C.A: Building in Summer, 1968. 

The 102-story Empire State Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) are at center, background with the new 40-story 1250 Broadway Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1969) under construction. At left are the 58-story 500 Fifth Avenue Tower (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931). The new 45-story Interchem Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1969) under construction, at 1133 Avenue of the Americas are at right.

Photo: Klaus Lehnartz.

Source: Thomas Page. "New York". Genéve. Minerva, 1976.

Night view looking north of Midtown Manhattan from Empire State Building. Fall, 1968. 

Rockefeller Center’s original Art Deco’s buildings (The Associated Architects: Reinhard & Hofmeister; Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray; Raymond Hood, Godley & Fouilhoux; Edward Durrell Stone, 1931-1940) dominated by 70-story R.C.A. Building (Associated Architects, 1933) are on the center. The new Avenue of the Americas’ modern glass office skyscrapers are at left with the new 45-story Interchem Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1969), at 1133 Avenue of the Americas, nearly completion, at foreground, and the new 50-story Burlington House Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1969) under construction at background. The 58-story Art Deco’s 500 Fifth Avenue tower (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) and the new 50-story-modern General Motors Building (Edward Durrell Stone-Emery Roth & Sons, 1968) are at right.

Photo: Verdon/Fotogram.

Source: Thomas Page. "New York". Genéve. Minerva, 1976.

Midtown Manhattan looking northwest from the intrerior of 40th floor of Interchem Building, 1133 Avenue of the Americas. Summer, 1971.

The new 45-story J.P¨. Stevens Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1971) are visible on the right with new 51-story McGraw-Hill Building (Harrison, Abramovitz & Harris, 1972) under construction.

Photo: Unknown.

Source: Architectural Record, November, 1971.

Night view looking northwest of Midtown Manhattan form Empire State Building. Spring, 1970.

Photo: Germán Carrasco Franco.

Source: Germán Carrasco Franco, "The World is my Playground. Picture Atlas". México-Hong Kong. Germán Carrasco Franco-The Wing Fat Printing Co., Ltd., 1985.

Night view looking southeast of Midtown Manhattan from the top of Times Square’s Marriott Marquis Hotel, in the Summer of 1987. The 45-story Interchem Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1969) are at left, and the 40-story New York Telephone Building (Kahn & Jacobs, 1974) with the 102-story Empire State Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) are visible at center.

Photo: Unknown.

Source: Michael George “New York Today” (New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1988)

Night view of Midtown Manhattan looking northwest from Empire State Building in the Fall of 1968. The Avenue of the Americas' skyscraper corridor are on the left showing the 45-story Interchem Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1969) nearing completion on foreground, and the Time & Life Building (Harrison & Abramovitz, 1959) at background. Rockefeller Centrer's RCA Building are on the center and the new 50-story white marble and glass General Motors Building (Edward Durell Stone-Emery Roth & Sons, 1968) is visible at the far right,

Photo: Verdom/Fotogram

Source: Thomas Page. “New York” (Genéve, Minerva, 1976).