An aerial view toward the north-east corner of the original Pennsylvania Station that features automobiles, street cars, double-decker buses and pedestrians on the street. This Beaux-Arts style landmark building designed by McKim, Mead & White...
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.
This color postcard is an idealized drawing of the Empire State Building looking at it from Fifth Avenue. There are the smaller buildings surrounding the Empire State Building. On Fifth Avenue, people are walking on the sidewalks while the street...
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...
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...
Image taken from behind a Doric column highlighting the breadth of the space. The author of the article featuring this illustration was W. Symmes Richardson, an engineer and a partner of Charles McKim.
Conditions which will be eliminated by construction under new financial program. View at 11th Avenue and 32nd Street showing northbound freight train emerging from the New York Central West Side Yard, as a southbound train is entering same.
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.
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View of passenger and arriving train on elevated platform; Chrysler and Chanin buildings visible in distance. Caption on back indicates this was the last el in the city, and was slated to be torn down.
Shows the Murray Hill Tunnel, later called the Park Avenue Tunnel, with Fourth Avenue Horse Car Line "Harlem via Madison Av." with The Church of the Messiah in background.
Interior image of the Pennsylvania Station concourse showing the vaulted ceiling, clock and travelers. It is prime example of the Beaux-Arts interior styling for which McKim, Mead & White were renowned. Constructed of steel, glass and travertine,...
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.
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.
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...
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...
