Color postcard of the Hotel Governor Clinton, "New York's newest and finest. 1200 rooms, all outside; 1200 baths; 5 restaurants; bar and cocktail lounge; all air-conditioned. Rates from $3.30. Robert J. Glenn, manager." The hotel was built in 1929....
Hotel Pennsylvania, at 33rd Street and Seventh Avenue, opposite the Pennsylvania Railroad depot, with which it is connected by an underground passageway. The first section on Seventh Avenue, 20 stories high, contains 1,000 bedrooms with bath and...
Canal Board; Debt; Revenue; Enlargement; Tolls; Expenses; Champlain Canal; New York State Assembly; Erie Canal; New York (State); Report
Page 6 of a fifty-one page document of the Report of the Canal Board in answer to resolutions respecting the canal debts and revenues and the enlargement of the Erie Canal addressed to the Honorable The Assembly. This page compares the seven year...
Thirty-fourth Street (New York, N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Maps.
This cropped image shows two blocks of 34th Street between 7th Avenue and 9th Avenue and between 33rd Street and 35th Street. The buildings, colored in red, include row houses, lofts, banks, Printing Crafts Building, Pennsylvania Building, Nelson...
Thirty-fourth Street (New York, N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Maps.
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...
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...
The caption reads: "New York. The site for the tunnel terminal of the Pennsylvania Railroad, 34th St." Cars are parked along the road running parallel to the site on the right. Penn Station was built in 1910 by McKim, Mead & White. It was...
This color postcard shows the old Pennsylvania Station from the corner of 7th Avenue and 34th Street. The Classical façade of columns is visible. Built by McKim, Mead & White in 1910, Penn Station was demolished in 1962 to make way for the Penn...
Postcard shows how easy it is for those staying at the hotel to walk across the street to Penn Station and catch the subway to the fair grounds. The Long Island Railroad and the I.R.T. (Interborough Rapid Transit) lines are drawn from Penn Station...
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.
The signal and switch tower in the yard at the west end of the station, showing overhead rails which supplement the third rail on the ground for carrying over switches. Entrance to the tunnels under the Hudson River can be seen in the middle...
