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Title: 34th Street (North side) from just east of Ninth Avenue.
Description: 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.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34239

Title: B. Altman Building 34th Street façade.
Description: B. Altman Building 34th Street designed by Trowbridge and Livingston. 365 Fifth Avenue.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34205

Title: B. Altman Building Fifth Avenue entrance canopy.
Description: B. Altman Building Fifth Avenue entrance canopy designed by Trowbridge and Livingston. 365 Fifth Avenue.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34206

Title: B. Altman Building Fifth Avenue façade.
Description: B. Altman Building Fifth Avenue designed by Trowbridge and Livingston. 365 Fifth Avenue.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34204

Title: B. Altman Building elevator cage.
Description: B. Altman Building elevator cage on the lower level opposite the Old York Library. 365 Fifth Avenue.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34207

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: Concourse, Pennsylvania Station.
Description: 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.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34245

Title: Eagle with bas relief shield, William Sloane House, Y.M.C.A.
Description: 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.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34238

Title: Empire State Building lobby
Description: 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.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34246

Title: Empire State Building lobby.
Description: 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.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34247

Title: Farley Post Office, 8th Avenue between 31st and 32nd Streets, Eighth Avenue façade from 33rd Street.
Description: Exterior view of Farley Post Office with automobiles and pedestrians.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital images
Local Identifier: 34230

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: 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: Greeley Square, Horace Greeley sculpture.
Description: Broadway and 32nd Street. Photograph depicting a memorial statue of Horace Greeley (1811-1872), newspaper editor for the New York Tribune.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital images
Local Identifier: 34221

Title: Greeley Square, view to north.
Description: Greeley Square. Broadway between 32nd and 33rd Streets.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34220

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

Title: Herald Square Hotel façade.
Description: 19 West 32nd Street. Herald Square Hotel which was at one time the headquarters of Life Magazine.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34210

Title: Herald Square Owl.
Description: 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.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34213

Title: Herald Square.
Description: Herald Square from Broadway, North at 33rd Street.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34211

Title: Herald Towers.
Description: Herald Towers Condominiums formerly the Hotel McAlpin, 50 West 34th Street.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34218

Title: Hotel Martinique.
Description: Exterior view of Hotel Martinique, 49 West 32nd Street.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34223

Title: Javits Center.
Description: 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.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34241

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: Keens Steakhouse interior, 72 West 36th Street.
Description: 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.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34229

Title: Koster and Bial’s Music Hall, 34th Street and Broadway
Description: 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.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34217

Title: Macy's Department Store.
Description: 151 West 34th Street. Photograph of the Broadway façade of Macy's department store with pedestrian and automobile traffic.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34214

Title: Macy's Department Store.
Description: Photograph of Macy's 34th Street entrance and façade, 151 West 34th Street.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34216

Title: Macy's Department Store.
Description: Photograph of the Broadway entrance to Macy's Department store, 151 West 34th Street.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34215

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: Manhattan Center - exterior detail.
Description: 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".
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34233

Title: Manhattan Center - exterior.
Description: 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.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34231

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: Minerva and the Bell Ringers.
Description: 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.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34212

Title: New Yorker Hotel.
Description: Wide angle view of New Yorker Hotel, Eighth Avenue and 34th Street.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34234

Title: Oppenheim Collins Building, 35 West 34th Street.
Description: 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.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34244

Title: Park Avenue & vicinity.
Description: 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.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34199

Title: Path train entrance, 32nd Street & Sixth Avenue, looking west.
Description: Exterior view of Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) station at 32nd Street with the Manhattan Mall in the background, formerly the Gimbels flagship store.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34222

Title: Pennsylvania Hotel exterior, 401 Seventh Avenue and 33rd Street.
Description: Photograph featuring the exterior of the Pennsylvania Hotel.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34227

Title: Pennsylvania Station square clock.
Description: Pennsylvania Station square clock hanging above 34th Street entrance west of 7th Avenue.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34224

Title: Pennsylvania Station, interior of station, brass handrails on train platform.
Description: Brass handrails on train platform that were part of the original Penn Station, 34th Street.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34225

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: View of the railroad tracks on the West Side.
Description: 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.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34242

Title: William Sloane House, Y.M.C.A.
Description: 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.
Type: still image
Genre: Digital Images
Local Identifier: 34237

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