VINTAGE MANHATTAN SKYLINE

The 110-story World Trade Center Twin Towers. Vesey, West, Liberty and Church streets. Minoru Yamasaki & Associates-Emery Roth & Sons. Build between 1966-1976. Twin Towers open on April 4th, 1973. The entire complex was destroyed by a terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.

Aerial view looking northeast of Lower Manhattan skyscrapers dominated by the Twin Towers of World Trade Center nearing completion, in Autumn, 1973. Just below them can be seen the new 45-story Bankers Trust Plaza (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1974, demolished in 2007-2010). Midtown Manhattan skyline with the Empire State Building can be seen at background, at left.

Photo: Nester´s Map & Guide Corp.

The limestone and glass facade of the Empire State Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) damaged by the B-24 air crash accident on the floors 79-80. July, 30, 1945.

Photo: Wide World.

Source: Goldman, Jonathan; Valenti, Michael. “The Empire State Building Book” (New York, St. Martin’s Press. 1980).

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The 29 story Mutual of New York Building (M.O.N.Y. Building). 1740 Broadway, east side between 55th. to 56th. Streets. Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1948-1950.

View looking northeast of the Mutual of New York Building, in Summer, 1951.

Photo: Office for Metropolitan History.

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).

Workers working in the interior of new Bankers Trust Building (Emery Roth & Sons-Shreve, Lamb & Harmon-Henry Dreyfuss, 1962), on Park Avenue, during its construction, in early summer, 1962. The glass and black aluminum facade of Union Carbide Building (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1960) are at right. The old New York General Building (Warren & Wetmore, 1929) and the new 59-story Pan Am Building (Walter Gropius-Emery Roth & Sons-Pietro Belluschi, 1963) under construction, are on background.

Photo: Aspect Public Library.

Source: Mary Moore Mason. "The Picture Book of the U.S.A. In Color" (New York. Diadem Books, 1974).

The 102-Story Empire State Building. 350 Fifth Avenue west block between 33rd to 34th street. Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1929-1931.

View looking south of the Empire State Building from the R.C.A. Building’s observatory, in Spring, 1961. The Wall Street’s skyscrapers are visible at left background with the Cities Service Building (Clinton & Russell, 1932) and the new 64-story One Chase Manhattan Plaza (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1961).

Photo: Alfred Mainzer, Inc.

The 102-story Empire State Building. 350 Fifth Avenue, west block between 33rd to 34th streets. Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1929-1931. View looking southwest from Lincoln Building. 1952.

Photo: Hulton Archives

Source: Bill Harris "The World Trade Center. A Tribute" (Philladelphia, Courage Books, 2001).

Aerial view looking southwest of Midtown Manhattan in Spring, 1954. The Empire State Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) are at left with the United Nations headquarters (Wallace K. Harrison, 1948-1952), Daily News (Hood & Howells, 1930) and Chrysler Building (William Van Allen, 1930), at center.

Photo: Unknown.

Source: "A Pictorial Booklet of the United Nations" (Boston, A Natural Color.Co. Publication, Circa, 1960).

Aerial view of Empire State Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) in Spring 1968. View looking south showing the new 1250 Broadway Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1969) under construction.

Photo: Unknown.

Source: "Las Maravillas del Mundo. Enciclopedia Salvat del Universo Monumental. Volumen 6. Tema. El Empire State Building". España. Salvat Editores. 1985.

Midtown Manhattan looking south from the R.C.A. Building’s observation deck. Spring, 1963. The Empire State Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931), at center, dominates the skyline. The 500 Fifth Avenue tower (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) are at left, and the modern Union Dime Savings Bank Building (Kahn & Jacobs, 1958) are at right, over Avenue of the Americas.

Photo: Unknowm

Source: Manhattan Post Card, Co. Dexter Press, Co.

Aerial view of Midtown Manhattan looking northeast showing the Empire State Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) nearing completion. The Chrysler Building (William Van Allen, 1930) is on background, at right. Early 1931.

Photo: The New York Daily News.

The iconic Empire State Building was completed in 1931 after two years of construction. It is 102 stories tall. (vía New York City skyscrapers under construction - Empire State Building, 1930)

Building the Empire State Building. Chrysler Building (William Van Allen, 1930) appears on background. Summer 1930.

Photos: Lewis Hine.

Source: Lewis Hine: The Empire State Building. Introduction by Freddy Langer (New York. Prestel-Verlag. 1998).

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).