Longacre Square. 45th Street - Broadway. Known as the "Great White Way" at night. Here Hollywood products are first presented.
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The skyline - a traveler's view of the skyline from the decks of an ocean liner.
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"From the Paramount Building." 43rd Street - Broadway. Looking northeast from 45th to 60th streets. Radio City not erected.
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"Grand Central Zone." From the Paramount Building. All of these tall buildings have practically been erected in the past 6 years.
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Fashionable St. Bartholomew's Church Protestant Episcopal. Park Avenue and 51st Street.
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Fashionable Park Avenue, north from 46th Street. Street of fabulous wealth and tall apartment hotels.
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General Electric building, 50th Street and Lexington Avenue. Mounting to the sky like a cathedral spire, the lower portion suggesting crystal blocks of ice.
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Along Lexington Avenue, north from 44th Street. In the left foreground is the Grand Central Palace, above it is the unfinished Waldorf Astoria.
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Chrysler Bldg. No bldg. attracts as much attention excepting the Empire State.
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"Up Where the Blue Begins." Chrysler Bldg. 42nd Street, Lexington Avenue. 77 stories. Only 55 years ago the site was a pasture for goats.
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News Building. Rear - from 41st Street. Here is published New York's most popular tabloid newspaper.
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42nd and Broadway on a rainy day.
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The American Shipper unloading its cargo near the Battery.
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42nd Street from 6th Avenue "L."  It reaches across Manhattan from river to river, from Hell's Kitchen to new Tudor City.
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Homeward bound after the day's toil. 42nd Street and 6th Avenue looking south.
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Noontime. 6th Avenue from 42nd Street. Center of employment bureau catering to the cheap labor market.
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"With Lights Aglow." 42nd Street - 6th Avenue. Same view at 6pm when the offices are lighted for the late office workers.
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West from Bryant Park. 42nd Street - 6th Avenue. At the left is the Bush Terminal building, 480 feet, it occupies the smallest area of any building for its height in the world.
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Bryant Park. A victim of the Depression. Out of a job, the attitude of utter dejection and submission to fate is all too strongly evident.
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500 5th Avenue, 42nd Street. Here is an example of the modern vogue in skyscrapers, 50 stories high.
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42nd Street and 5th Avenue. More people pass here daily at this corner than perhaps anywhere else in the world.
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Procession. 5th Avenue - 41st Street. Shoppers to the department stores and shops in the vicinity.
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Fountain. N.Y. Public Library. Left of entrance of library, fountain of white marble designed by Macmonnies.
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South Ferry from Staten Island Ferry. The gateway to the city, South Ferry.
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Pedestrians. 5th Avenue - 40th Street. Passing the N.Y. Public Library.
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