Manhattan: 102nd Street (East) - Lexington Avenue

(1)
E. 1O2nd Street, west from a point between Lexington and Park Avenues and across the latter to Central Park (seen in the distance ). The stone arched viaduct shown carries the road-bed of the New York Central Railroad above the street level. Buildings in the foreground are tenements and are within the shadow of Fifth Avenue apartments that fringe the park. Note to the right the vacant area caused by the demolition of structures not conforming to present building and sanitary requirements; slum clearance.
September 14, 1938.
P.L. Sperr
(2)
Building shown on the right of view No. 1, located at and adjoining and east of the N.E. corner of Park Avenue, as viewed northward from the aforementioned clearance.
September 14, 1938.
P. L. Sperr