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34th Street (North side) from just east of Ninth Avenue.
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This view of 34th Street is looking east. A woman and her two children are walking on the sidewalk as traffic speeds along the street. The Empire State Building can be seen in the distance as well as the large, red sign for the New Yorker.
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still image
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Digital Images
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34239
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B. Altman Building 34th Street façade.
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B. Altman Building 34th Street designed by Trowbridge and Livingston. 365 Fifth Avenue.
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still image
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Digital Images
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34205
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B. Altman Building Fifth Avenue façade.
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B. Altman Building Fifth Avenue designed by Trowbridge and Livingston. 365 Fifth Avenue.
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still image
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Digital Images
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34204
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B. Altman Building elevator cage.
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B. Altman Building elevator cage on the lower level opposite the Old York Library. 365 Fifth Avenue.
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still image
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Digital Images
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34207
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Church of St. Michael.
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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.
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still image
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Digital Images
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34236
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Concourse, Pennsylvania Station.
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33rd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. The concourse is the one area left of old Penn Station, which was torn down in 1969. This photo shows the train announcements board in the concourse.
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still image
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Digital Images
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34245
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Eagle with bas relief shield, William Sloane House, Y.M.C.A.
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360 West 34th Street (Southeast corner of 34th Street and Ninth Avenue). This is one of the two eagles that adorn the tops of the doorways of the old William Sloane House. The eagle's shield are the words, "Spirit, Mind, Body," those elements of people that Y.M.C.A. programs seek to build.
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still image
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Digital Images
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34238
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Empire State Building lobby
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350 Fifth Avenue between 33rd and 34th Streets. This is a photograph of the Empire State Building lobby, showing the information desk at the far end.
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still image
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Digital Images
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34246
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Empire State Building lobby.
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350 Fifth Avenue between 33rd and 34th Streets. This is a photograph of the main lobby in the Empire State Building. It is through here that the observation deck is accessed by the curious. In 2009, a 12.5 million restoration of the murals on the ceiling was completed, so be sure to look up.
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still image
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Digital Images
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34247
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Fifth Avenue & vicinity.
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Fifth Avenue looking north from 33rd Street, with pedestrians, automobiles and street food vendor. Depicts southeast corner of Empire State Building.
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still image
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Digital images
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Local Identifier
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34201
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Gorham Building façade.
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Gorham Building on Fifth Avenue and 36th Street designed by McKim, Mead and White.
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still image
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Digital Images
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Local Identifier
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34209
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Greeley Square, Horace Greeley sculpture.
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Broadway and 32nd Street. Photograph depicting a memorial statue of Horace Greeley (1811-1872), newspaper editor for the New York Tribune.
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still image
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Digital images
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34221
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Greeley Square, view to north.
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Greeley Square. Broadway between 32nd and 33rd Streets.
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still image
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Digital Images
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34220
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Herald Square Hotel façade.
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19 West 32nd Street. Herald Square Hotel which was at one time the headquarters of Life Magazine.
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still image
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Digital Images
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Local Identifier
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34210
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Herald Square Owl.
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Bronze owl on the clock in Herald Square North sculpted by Antonin Jean Carles which stood atop the roof of the Herald York Herald building, Sixth Avenue and 34th Street.
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still image
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Digital Images
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Local Identifier
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34213
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Herald Square.
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Herald Square from Broadway, North at 33rd Street.
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still image
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Digital Images
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Local Identifier
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34211
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Herald Towers.
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Herald Towers Condominiums formerly the Hotel McAlpin, 50 West 34th Street.
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still image
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Digital Images
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Local Identifier
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34218
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Hotel Martinique.
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Exterior view of Hotel Martinique, 49 West 32nd Street.
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still image
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Digital Images
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34223
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Javits Center.
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37th Street, North side, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues. The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center is on the West Side of Manhattan. The Center is currently undergoing an expansion project that should be completed by the fall of 2013. Eleventh Avenue traffic is in the foreground.
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still image
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Digital Images
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34241
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Keens Steakhouse exterior, 72 West 36th Street.
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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.
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still image
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Digital Images
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Local Identifier
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34228
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Keens Steakhouse interior, 72 West 36th Street.
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Interior view of Keens Steakhouse, which was formerly the Lambs Club, the oldest social club for professionals in the performing arts in the United States.
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still image
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Digital Images
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Local Identifier
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34229
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Koster and Bial’s Music Hall, 34th Street and Broadway
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Commemorative plaque with the inscription: Here the motion picture began on the night of April 23, 1896 on this site in Koster & Bial’s Music Hall Thomas A. Edison with the Vitascope first projected a moving picture.
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still image
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Digital Images
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34217
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Macy's Department Store.
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151 West 34th Street. Photograph of the Broadway façade of Macy's department store with pedestrian and automobile traffic.
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still image
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Digital Images
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34214
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Macy's Department Store.
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Photograph of Macy's 34th Street entrance and façade, 151 West 34th Street.
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still image
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Digital Images
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34216
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Macy's Department Store.
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Photograph of the Broadway entrance to Macy's Department store, 151 West 34th Street.
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still image
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Digital Images
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34215
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Manhattan Center - exterior detail.
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311 West 34th Street. Detail of a lion water spout on façade of building. In 1922 the Manhattan Opera House was purchased by the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Free Masonry. The Masons built a new building façade with the inscription "Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite" which can still be seen today. The Lion may be a reference to Masonic handshake known as "The Lion's Paw".
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still image
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Digital Images
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34233
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Manhattan Center - exterior.
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Exterior view of the Manhattan Center, 311 West 34th Street. First built as the Manhattan Opera House by Oscar Hammerstein I in 1906. In 1922 the Manhattan Opera House was purchased by the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Free Masonry. The Masons built a new building façade with the inscription "Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite" which can still be seen today.
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still image
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Digital Images
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34231
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Manhattan Center - interior.
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Interior view of the Manhattan Center Hammerstein Ballroom, 311 West 34th Street.
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still image
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Digital Images
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Local Identifier
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34232
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Minerva and the Bell Ringers.
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Bronze statue of Minerva and the Bell Ringers that is part of the James Gordon Bennett Memorial in Herald Square, Sixth Avenue and 34th Street. The statue was sculpted by Antonin Jean Carles and was once part of the New York Herald Building.
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still image
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Digital Images
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Local Identifier
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34212
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New Yorker Hotel.
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Wide angle view of New Yorker Hotel, Eighth Avenue and 34th Street.
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still image
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Digital Images
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34234
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Oppenheim Collins Building, 35 West 34th Street.
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This building once housed Oppenheim Collins and Company. Founded in 1871 by Albert D. and Charles J. Oppenheim, Oppenheim Collins was originally a New York City skirt manufacturer, later branching into department stores catering to women. The first store was opened in 1901. The lot for this building was bought in 1910. It was during this time that department stores were moving from downtown to the 34th Street area. The building housed the company headquarters and the stores expanded into several major cities. In 1945, City Stores Company gained control of the chain and later Oppenheim Collins merged with Franklin Simon & Company, the name of the chain being liquidated by 1963.
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still image
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Digital Images
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34244
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Park Avenue & vicinity.
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An image of Park Avenue looking north from 33rd Street, depicting Park Avenue Tunnel that passes under Park Avenue and leads uptown towards Grand Central Terminal. MetLife Building, originally called the Pan Am Building, in background.
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still image
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Digital Images
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Local Identifier
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34199
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Pennsylvania Station square clock.
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Pennsylvania Station square clock hanging above 34th Street entrance west of 7th Avenue.
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still image
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Digital Images
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34224
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Subway construction for the 7 Line.
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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.
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still image
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Digital Images
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34240
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Tenement building.
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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.
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still image
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Digital Images
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Local Identifier
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34243
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Tiffany & Co. Building façade.
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Description
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401 Fifth Avenue and 37th Street, SE corner. Tiffany & Co. Building Fifth Avenue designed by McKim, Mead and White.
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still image
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Digital Images
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Local Identifier
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34208
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Vanderbilt Hotel, 4 Park Avenue between 33rd & 34th Streets.
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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.
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still image
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Digital Images
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Local Identifier
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34200
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View of the railroad tracks on the West Side.
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37th Street, North side, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues. This area is currently closed off as a construction site. A wooden wall blocks the view of the railroad tracks.
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still image
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Digital Images
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Local Identifier
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34242
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William Sloane House, Y.M.C.A.
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Description
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360 West 34th Street (Southeast corner of 34th Street and Ninth Avenue). Founded in 1930 to provide cheap housing for members of the Armed Forces, the William Sloane House was named after William Sloane (1873-1922), chair of the Army and Navy International Committee through World War I and of the National War Work Council of the YMCA. This building on West 34th Street was the largest YMCA residential program in the city of New York. Designed by New York architects Cross and Cross, the William Sloane house opened with 1,595 rooms, but remodeling and changes in programs eventually reduced the rooms to 1,400. By the 1940s, changing demographics forced the William Sloane to refocus. As the number of servicemen needing housing dwindled, women and girls could stay in the building, and the William Sloane began providing long-term accommodations to college students and welfare recipients. After a fire in 1974 that killed four people and several attempts at fundraising in the 1980s, the William Sloane closed in 1993. The building was eventually purchased for five million dollars and remodeled, becoming the 360 West 34th Street, a building of affordable rental apartments for young professionals new to New York.
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still image
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Digital Images
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Local Identifier
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34237