Manhattan: Rockefeller Plaza - 48th Street (West)

Rockefeller Plaza, (center foreground and not constructed) from West 48th (left margin) to 5lst (right margin) Street's, showing the development of this new midtown center. Prominent in the middle is the 70-story R.C.A. Building. To the left and right respectively are R.K.0. Centre Theatre and the 31-story R.K.O. Building and the International Music Hall. All of these structures front on Sixth Avenue on their far sides, and are viewed westward across Fifth Avenue. The photographers vantage point is the 40-storied structure, No. 444 Madison Avenue that is to the rear of Saks Fifth Avenue Department Store. At the top appears a glimpse of the North (Hudson) River and its Jersey
shore.
1932
Gift of Rockefeller Center
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