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Manhattan: 6th Avenue - 49th Street (West)

(1)
Sixth Ave., east side, between West 49th (right) and 50th (left) Streets. This block, mostly brownstone, which contained numerous and well known speakeasies, has just been razed. In the center, on the east side of Fifth Ave., is Sak's Fifth Ave. Dept Store. In the background, the tower of the new No. 444 Madison Ave. Building, the General Electric
Building and the twin spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral.
July 23, 1931.
P. L. Sperr.
(2)
The same, and also showing prominently West 49th Street.
July 23, 1931.
P. L. Sperr.

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