VINTAGE MANHATTAN SKYLINE

The 21-story Flatiron Building. 175 Fifth Avenue between Broadway, 22nd and 23rd streets. Daniel H. Burnham. 1900-1902.

View looking south of Flatiron Building, Circa, 1902.

Photo: Museum of the City of New York.

Source: Feininger, Andreas; Lyman, Susan Elizabeth. "The Face of New York". New York, Crown Publishers,1955.

The 16-story original Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Fifth Avenue, west side between 33rd to 34th strets. Henry J. Hardenbergh, 1893-1896. It was demolished in 1929 to make way to 102-story Empire State Building.

The original Waldorf-Astoria. View looking soutwest from Fifth Avenue and 34th. Street. 1898.

Photo: Geo P. Hall & Son.

Source: “Staley’s Views New York 1909″. New York,  Geo P. Hall & Son. 1909.

The 51-story all-black-tinted glass curtain-wall facade Olympic Tower. 645 Fifth Avenue, northeast corner with East 51st. Street. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1972-1976.

View looking north of Olympic Tower, from Rockefeller Center, in Spring, 1977. 

The 29-story 650 Fifth Avenue Building (Carl Warnecke & Associates, 1978) under construction are visible at left, and the General Motors Building (Edward Durell Stone-Emery Roth & Sons, 1968 are at background. The St. Patrick’s Cathedral (James Renwick, Jr, 1859-1879; towers, 1888) are at foreground, right.

Photo: Parker/SOM.

Source:  Stern, Robert A.M.; Mellin, Thomas; Fishman David. “New York 1960. Architecture and urbanism between the Second World War and the Bicentennial” New York. The Monacelli Press. Second Edition. 1997.

The 39-story aluminum and glass Tishman Building. 666 Fifth Avenue, west block between 52nd to 53rd streets. Carson & Lundin, 1956-1957.

View looking north of Tishman Building from 52nd Street. Spring, 1958.

Photo: Alexandre George

Source: Progressive Architecture. September, 1958

Night view looking northwest of Rockefeller Center original buildings with the new Avenue of the Americas’ modern glass skyscrapers corridor. This view was taken from the top of 500 Fifth Avenue tower in early 1969. The R.C.A. Building (Asociated Architects, 1933) are at center.

Photo: Alfred Mainzer, Inc.

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).

The 58-story 500 Fifth Avenue tower (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931). Fifth Avenue at northwest corner of 42nd Street. View looking northwest from Fifth Avenue and 39th Street showing the New York Public Library. Spring 1931.

Photo: Unknown.

Source: "New York Illustrated". New York. Manhattan Post Card Publishing Co. 1938.

The 32-story Squibb Building. Ely Jacques Kahn. Architect (1929-1930). View of the building’s south face from Fifth Avenue and 56th Street in November of 1935.

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 new 52-story dark black-tinted glass and travertine marble “bell-bottom” Solow Building. 9 West 57th Street. Gordon Bunshaft, architect from Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1969-1974. Night view looking southwest of Solow Building from Fifth Avenue at Grand Army Plaza in the Spring of 1974. The old Plaza Hotel (Henry J. Harbenbergh, 1907).

Photo: Ezra Stoller/ESTO.

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).

Aerial view of the Empire State Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) and it's neighborhood in early 1954.

Photo: Unknown.

Source: "Souvenir and Easy Guide to New York City" (New York, Manhattan Post Card, Co. Inc. 1974).

Aerial view of Midtown Manhattan looking south in October of 1967 showing the 50-story General Motors Building (Edward Durell Stone-Emery Roth & Sons, 1968) and behind it apperars the Pan Am Building (Emery Roth & Sons-Walter Gropius-Pietro Belluschi, 1963) and Park Avenue modern towers is on the left. The 102-story Empire State Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931), above, in the center, dominate the skyline. The Rockefeller Center and the Avenue of the Americas' skyscraper corridor is on the right. 

Photo: Louis B. Schlivek.

Source: Rai Y. Okamoto, Frank E. Williams and Et Al. "Urban Design Manhattan. Regional Plan Association" (New York, The Viking Press, 1969).

Tishman Buiding at 666 Fifth Avenue (Carson & Lundin, 1957). Detail of building's aluminium and glass curtain-wall facade. Spring 1958.

Photo: Alexandre George 

Source: Progressive Architecture. September, 1958.

500 Fifth Avenue (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) under construction. View looking northwest from Mercantile Building (10 East 40th Street, 1928) on August 1st, 1930.

Photo: Irving Underhill.

Source: Wired New York.com

500 Fifth Avenue (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931). Early 1931.

Photo: Unknown

Source: "New York Illustrated" (New York. Manhattan Post Card Publishing Co. 1938).

View of Midtown Manhattan looking northeast from Empire State Building. Pan Am Building and Park Avenue skyscrapers is on top right.

Summer 1968. 

Source: Unknown

The Empire State Building in 1933.

Photo: Services Américans d'Information (Paris, France).

Source: Freimarck, George.  "U.S.A." (París, Neuchatel, Editions Ides Et Calendes, 1950s).