Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 40th Street

Fifth Avenue, west side, from Ve t 40th to 42nd Street's, showing the removal of the flag pole and base at the south end of the plaza to the front of the N.Y.P.L. View 1 is southward, with the Library on the right, and Fifth Avenue buildings to the left. The latter compbise the 4Oth to 39th Street frontage. In the center is the Brooks Bros. Bldg. at the S.W. corner of 10th Street. View 2 is northward and includes the skyscraper, No. 500 Fifth Avenue.
February 144, 1941
No's. 1-2
Nthan 5chwartz, photo
Photostat Division of the
New York Public Library