Opened in 1880, the 2nd Avenue elevated ("El") train had a stop at 34th Street. There are people walking on the sidewalks and crossing between the train lines. Carts are parked along the curbs and under the elevated tracks.
Post office buildings--New York (State)--New York.
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....
Caption reads: "Pennsylvania Hotel. One of the world's largest hotels, the finest of the chain of Statler Hotels. A popular meeting place for New Yorkers. Has 2200 rooms." Facing the hotel in the foreground is the old Pennsylvania Station...
View of two sides of the Park Avenue Hotel exterior from the corner of Park Avenue and 33rd Street. In the foreground are horses and carriages as well as dogs and people walking on the sidewalks. The hotel no longer exists.
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...
The view from the Park Avenue Hotel shows the rooftops of the buildings across the street as well as part of Park Avenue stretching up to Grand Central Railroad Station at the north end. Originally built as the Grand Central Depot, this Grand...
This colorful map shows New York City before it was incorporated into the five boroughs. Westchester County stretches down into what is now the Bronx, Brooklyn appears as an independent city, and Queens is only a county.
Thirty-fourth Street (New York, N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
View of 5th Avenue looking south from 34th Street. The Marble Collegiate Church is visible and there are people on the sidewalks and carriages going up and down the street.
Caption reads: "The Waldorf - Northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and Thirty-third Street. H, J. Hardenbergh, Architect." Rare view of Waldorf before construction of the Astoria Hotel. Built by William Astor on the site of his father’s mansion and...
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.
Caption reads: Church at Thirty-Fifth Street and Lexington Avenue, New York, Vol. Three, 244. Church has vines growing up towards the steeple and along the side of the building. Across the street, a row house has its façade also covered in vines.
This map centers on 34th Street and shows what Midtown Manhattan's 21st Ward looked like in 1867. It features the East River lumber yards, the ferry to Hunters Point, the location of mansions, the railroad engine house (East of 4th Ave), and a...
Business enterprises--New York (State)--New York--Maps.
This map represents 34th Street and shows what Midtown Manhattan's 20th Ward looked like in 1867. Various businesses are visible: a granite mill, ironworks, a rice mill, a boiler shop, a stone yard, a coal company, railroad yards and the railroad...
A print depicting three residential homes each with a fenced in yard with trees. In the yard of the nearest structure, there is a man in a horse drawn work cart and several cows grazing.
Two well-dressed women and a little girl crossing 33rd Street below the Waldorf-Astoria. There is a horse drawn carriage and several men also in the street, one possibly a flower vendor.
Dayton, Charles W. (Charles Willoughby), 1846-1910; New York (State). Supreme Court; Metropolitan Fair (1864 :New York, N.Y.); Draft Riot, New York, N.Y., 1863; Elections--United States--1864.; New York (N.Y.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; New...
The Charles Willoughby Dayton papers include diaries, composition books, speeches, miscellaneous writings, published materials, ephemera and photographs. Of the four volumes in the collection, two are composition books dated 1858 and 1862,...
