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Title: Subway construction for the 7 Line.
Description: The southeast corner of 36th Street and Eleventh Avenue shows the construction of the 7 subway line, which will eventually run to the Jacob K. Javitts Convention Center on the West Side. Midtown buildings rise behind while signs near the corner explain what the construction is doing.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34240

Title: Keens Steakhouse exterior, 72 West 36th Street.
Description: Exterior view of Keens Steakhouse, which was formerly the Lambs Club, the oldest social club for professionals in the performing arts in the United States.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34228

Title: Watching the Great Presses of the New York Herald. A familiar night scene at Thirty-fifth Street and Broadway.
Description: A crowd of fashionable pedestrians peering through the windows of the New York Herald Building; there is a news boy behind the crowd trying to get a glimpse.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34152

Title: Pennsylvania Station, New York. The main waiting-room, the largest room of the kind in the world.
Description: Seventh to Eighth Avenues, 31st to 33rd Streets. Image showing magnificent Beaux-Arts architectural features such as vaulted ceiling and fluted Corinthian columns. Travelers are moving through the vast concourse. The author of the article, W. Symmes Richardson, was an engineer and a partner of Charles McKim.
Type: still image
Genre: Photographs
Local Identifier: 34130

Title: The Altman Store, Elevators, Main Floor.
Description: 34th Street. Illustrated interior view of B. Altman & Co. store with shoppers.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34119

Title: Tenement building.
Description: 37th Street and Tenth Avenue. This is one of the last tenement buildings left. Originally built to house New York’s poor, tenement buildings covered the West Side and other parts of the city. This building is next to an abandoned gas station as well as a billboard.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34243

Title: Empire State Building, 34th Street and Fifth Avenue.
Description: Drawing taken from the book "The Symbol of American Achievement." Upon the site of the historic old Waldorf Astoria, stands the Empire State Building, the highest structure in the world. Its tower designed as a mooring mast for airships is often concealed from the eye by low hanging clouds.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34002

Title: The Home-going Crowds on West 33rd Street Making their way to the various Tubes, Subways, Elevateds and so forth.
Description: Large group of pedestrians on West 33rd Street surrounded by buildings; in the background street-railroads are visible.
Type: still image
Genre: Photographs
Local Identifier: 34053

Title: Tiffany & Co. Building façade.
Description: 401 Fifth Avenue and 37th Street, SE corner. Tiffany & Co. Building Fifth Avenue designed by McKim, Mead and White.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34208

Title: An Audience at the Casino.
Description: An image taken from the stage toward a two-level auditorium filled with theatre goers, Broadway at West 39th Street. The orchestra pit and its members are all visible. The audience is well dressed, many men in evening wear. Designed by Architects Kimbal & Wisedell, the Casino Theatre stood on this corner from 1882 to 1930. It was renovated and partially reconstructed in 1905 following a fire. For approximately 50 years, some under the management of the Shuberts, the theatre showed musicals, operettas and vaudeville acts.
Type: still image
Genre: Photographs
Local Identifier: 34150

Title: Madison Square Garden entrance, eagle sculptures mounted on raised beds north of 7th Avenue.
Description: Eagle sculpture that was once part of the old Penn Station.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34226

Title: The Casino Theatre and Abbey's Theatre.
Description: The caption reads: "The Casino and Abbey's Theatre, Broadway Thirty-sixth to Thirty-eighth Street." The Casino Theatre was built by Kimball & Wisedell for producer Rudolph Aronson. Managed by Canary & Lederer (1894-1903) the Shuberts acquired the lease. The theater was reconstructed after a 1905 fire and demolished in 1930. Abbey’s Theatre (white building) was built by J.B. McElfatrick & Co., and named for producer and theatre manager Henry Abbey. In 1896, Al Hayman and his Theatrical Syndicate group took control of the theater after Abbey’s death and renamed it the Knickerbocker. In 1906, the Knickerbocker became the first building on Broadway to have a moving electric sign. The building was sold after the 1929 stock market crash and was also demolished in 1930.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34174

Title: Herald Square Hotel.
Description: One Block East of Pennsylvania Terminal from Hudson tubes Connecting at Hoboken with Lackawanna R.R. & Ocean Steamship piers; at Jersey City with Erie R.R. Crosstown cars passing the Hotel transfer to Grand Central Station (8 minutes) and other parts of the city. Theatres and shopping district in easy walking distance. 34th Street and Broadway.
Type: still image
Genre: Postcards
Local Identifier: 34062

Title: The 71st Regiment Armory at Park Avenue & 34th Street.
Description: Armory of the Seventh-first Regiment at Park Avenue and 34th Street.
Type: still image
Genre: Photographs
Local Identifier: 34052

Title: Tunnel connecting New Yorker Hotel to Pennsylvania Station.
Description: Eighth Avenue and 34th Street. Old tunnel connecting the hotel to Pennsylvania Station. Now used for storage in the hotel.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34235

Title: Fold out map showing train lines from Newark through the 5 boroughs.
Description: NYC five boroughs. Color map showing train lines from Newark through the boroughs of Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn.
Type: cartographic
Genre: Maps
Local Identifier: 34056

Title: Manhattan Center - interior.
Description: Interior view of the Manhattan Center Hammerstein Ballroom, 311 West 34th Street.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34232

Title: Broadway at Thirty-fourth Street, 1888. This site now occupied by the building of Saks & Co.
Description: Corner of Broadway and 34th Street. An aerial view of approximately a dozen storefronts in mid Manhattan featuring signage advertising "Jim Corbetts", the services of trained nurses, a doctor's office, soda and ice cream. Elevated subway tracks and a cable car are also visible.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34126

Title: B. Altman & Co., Fifth Ave., Madison Ave., Thirty-Fourth and Thirty-fifth Sts., New York.
Description: Illustrated front cover depicting Southwest exterior view of B. Altman's department store. Fifth Avenue between 34th and 35th Streets
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34102

Title: The Palm Room of the Imperial.
Description: A drawing of the tea room at the Hotel Imperial, Broadway and 32nd Street.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34139

Title: Gorham Building façade.
Description: Gorham Building on Fifth Avenue and 36th Street designed by McKim, Mead and White.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34209

Title: Region of bone-boiling and swill-milk nuisances, 1865.
Description: Map of slaughterhouses, bone-boiling establishments, lumber yard, manure yard and pork-packing houses on 10th and 11th Avenues between 37th and 40th Streets in 1865.
Type: cartographic
Genre: Maps
Local Identifier: 34077

Title: Empire State Building.
Description: 350 Fifth Avenue between 33rd and 34th Streets. This color postcard is an idealized drawing of the Empire State Building. At the base of the building are houses and tenements. Next to the building is a list of structures with the dates of when these buildings stood on the site before the Empire State Building was built in 1931. Designed by Shreve, Lamb and Harmon, the Empire State Building is 1,250 feet high and was once the tallest building in the world.
Type: still image
Genre: Postcards
Local Identifier: 34187

Title: New Post Office Building.
Description: West 34th Street between West 33rd and 35th Streets. Caption reads: "New Post Office Building situated between 31st and 33d Streets. This handsome building was completed in 1913 at the cost of $6,200,000. It faces the Pennsylvania Terminal and is built over the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The building covers a plot 375 by 335 feet and was built of granite in classic style architecture." The bordered photograph shows a couple walking along the sidewalk and several horse-drawn carts or carriages going down the street.
Type: still image
Genre: Photographs
Local Identifier: 34170

Title: Vanderbilt Hotel, 4 Park Avenue between 33rd & 34th Streets.
Description: Building designed by the architectural firm Warren & Wetmore in 1913; converted to an apartment building in 1965. The Empire State Building is featured in the background.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34200

Title: Thirty-third Street and Broadway.
Description: Image of 33rd Street and Broadway toward the end of the 19th Century showing an elevated train station and horse drawn carriages facing the area that later became Greeley Square.
Type: still image
Genre: Photographs
Local Identifier: 34123

Title: Fifth Avenue and 34th St. looking south, 1893.
Description: Astor Residence, Waldorf Hotel, Holland House Hotel, Marble Collegiate Church in the distance. The image also features horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians.
Type: still image
Genre: Photographs
Local Identifier: 34050

Title: The Hotel Vanderbilt.
Description: Park Avenue and 34th Street. Photograph by Van der Weyde. The Hotel Vanderbilt and on the right the entrance to the old Park Avenue tunnel. The image shows automobile, street-railroads and pedestrian traffic.
Type: still image
Genre: Photographs
Local Identifier: 34054

Title: Greeley Square, view to south.
Description: Greeley Square. Sixth Avenue.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34219

Title: The Court of the Park Avenue Hotel.
Description: Park Avenue and 34th Street. A drawing of a waiter at the Hotel Imperior’s garden court yard preparing to serve guests.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34138

Title: William Sloane House, Y.M.C.A. - 366 West 34th Street - New York, N.Y.
Description: Color postcard depicting the William Sloan House (Y.M.C.A) on the right and a map of midtown Manhattan on the left featuring such well-known landmarks as: the Empire State Building, Pennsylvania Station, the New York Public Library and the Metropolitan Opera House.
Type: still image
Genre: Postcards
Local Identifier: 34068

Title: Sixth Avenue looking north from Thirty-second Street, with elevated structure removed.
Description: Exterior north view of 6th Avenue from 32nd Street, including view of Gimbels department store and Greeley Square. Depicts cars, trucks and pedestrians. Inscription: Signed by architect Oliver Whitwell Wilson, 1902
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34082

Title: Empire State Building, 5th Ave. & 34th St. N.Y.
Description: View of Fifth Avenue looking north toward construction of the Empire State Building. Background depicts construction of the Chrysler building.
Type: still image
Genre: Photographs
Local Identifier: 34108

Title: Map of the Murray Hill Farm, Ogden Place Farm, Lawrence & Astor, Wiswell & Price, Corporation Wm. Wright, John Taylor and other property.
Description: A map showing the Midtown Manhattan area in 1867, well before commerce transformed it into skyscrapers and department stores. The farms are being divided into individual allotments to create housing and businesses. Murray Hill area, between 33rd through 35 Streets and between Broadway and Lexington Avenue.
Type: cartographic
Genre: Maps
Local Identifier: 34181

Title: Air view of the Hotel New Yorker, New York's largest hotel, nearing completion. Eighth Avenue and 34th Street
Description: Aerial view of the Hotel New Yorker. Caption on back of the photograph states "Photograph shows the New Yorker, and Eighth Avenue and 34th Street in the foreground. The New Yorker, which is 45 stories high, and has over 2500 rooms, will open in the middle of December 1929."
Type: still image
Genre: Photographs
Local Identifier: 34037

Title: Pennsylvania Station, two views of façade.
Description: Seventh Avenue between 31st and 33rd Streets. Exterior views of the station's main entrance, from north and south of Seventh Avenue featuring horse-drawn delivery wagons.
Type: still image
Genre: Negatives
Local Identifier: 34115

Title: Church of St. Michael.
Description: 424 West 34th Street. The original church building was on West 32nd Street. In 1906, construction of the Pennsylvania Station Rail Road Yard required that the church be moved to West 34th Street.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34236

Title: Fifth Avenue & vicinity.
Description: Fifth Avenue looking north from 33rd Street, with pedestrians, automobiles and street food vendor. Depicts southeast corner of Empire State Building.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital images
Local Identifier: 34201

Title: Herald Square and Broadway, north at 33rd St.
Description: 33rd Street and Broadway. Image shows Saks 34th Street, Sixth Ave. el train, McAlpin Hotel, Wilson Building, Herald Building and Times Building.
Type: still image
Genre: Photographs
Local Identifier: 34012

Title: Interior of Altman Department Store.
Description: 365 Fifth Avenue. Interior of B. Altman Department Store featuring the building's original rotunda and three floors of merchandise.
Type: still image
Genre: Photographs
Local Identifier: 34045

Title: The Manhattan Abattoir.
Description: This abattoir, commonly referred to as a slaughterhouse today, was on the site of the Manhattan Market building, 11th-12th Avenues, from 34th-35th Streets. Printed on image: "The company's dock." "Tunnel from dock." "Killing." "Cleaning." "Ice house." "Rendering room." "Sacking for shipment." "Exportation." Printed on border: "From sketches by V.L. Kingsbury. -- [See page 530.]"
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34027

Title: Daly's Theater, Broadway and Thirtieth Street.
Description: Broadway and 30th Street. Curbside photograph of Daly's Theatre that includes several store fronts with billboards occupying the ground floor of the building.
Type: still image
Genre: Photographs
Local Identifier: 34148

Title: First cars to use Park Avenue Tunnel, Park Avenue and 33rd Street.
Description: The first cars to use the newly converted Park Avenue Tunnel which had previously been used as a railroad tunnel. View is looking north toward Grand Central Terminal from 33rd Street.
Type: still image
Genre: Photographs
Local Identifier: 34031

Title: Hotel McAlpin Broadway and 34th Street. One of New York’s most prominent hotels. In the heart of the shopping and midtown business districts and convenient to all amusements.
Description: The Hotel McAlpin on the corner of Broadway and 34th Street. The street scene includes automobiles, buses, pedestrian traffic and on the lower right hand corner a glimpse of the Broadway El.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34059

Title: Advertisement for the Long Island City Absolute Auction Sale.
Description: Advertisement for land available for purchase in the Long Island City area right across from Manhattan. It targets people who want to move out of the city, yet desire easy access into and out of the city. The five cents refers to the fare to get into the city by public transportation. The sale was held Saturday, September 25, 1915.
Type: text
Genre: Advertisements
Local Identifier: 34184

Title: Map of area surrounding Waldorf building.
Description: Depicts location of retail and other businesses in the area. Sales prospectus booklet "Waldorf Building: 33rd Street-Fifth Avenue, New York City" inside front cover.
Type: cartographic
Genre: Maps
Local Identifier: 34101

Title: City blocks of 34th Street between 5th Avenue and 7th Avenue.
Description: This cropped image shows two blocks between 5th Avenue and 7th Avenue and between 33rd Street and 35th Street. The buildings, colored in red, include Saks, R.H. Macy's, Gimbels, Hotel McAlpin, Hotel Pennsylvania and the Empire State Building. On the map, Broadway crosses 6th Avenue and 35th Street to create Herald Square.
Type: cartographic
Genre: Maps
Local Identifier: 34166CR

Title: The New Gorham Building at Fifth Avenue and Thirty-Sixth Street.
Description: 390 Fifth Avenue. Exterior image of the Gorham Building which was completed in 1906. It was designed by Stanford White of McKim, Mead, and White in the early Florentine Renaissance style with double height Doric columns at street and roof levels. The building continues to occupy this space. It was designated as a Landmark Site by the Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1998.
Type: still image
Genre: Photographs
Local Identifier: 34125

Title: Pennsylvania Station, New York. Thirty-third Street carriage driveway, looking east.
Description: 33rd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. The image is from an article in a bound volume of essays from various sources entitled "Magazine Articles on New York City". The writer of the article, Symmes Richardson, was an engineer and a partner of Charles McKim.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34004

Title: The Fourth Avenue Front, Stewart's Hotel for Working Women.
Description: Fourth Avenue, 32nd and 33rd Streets. Illustration of street scene in front of the Stewart's Hotel for Working Women. Stewart's Hotel for Working Women was commissioned by the wealthy merchant, A.T. Stewart. The hotel opened in 1877 to provide safe housing for the influx of working women into the city. It was soon reopened as a regular hotel in 1878 and renamed the Park Avenue Hotel. The building was demolished in 1927.
Type: still image
Genre: Prints
Local Identifier: 34014

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