Lexington Ave. & 54th St., 2/28/1912
An exterior photograph displaying Lexington Avenue at the intersection of 54th Street. A number of apartment houses flank each side of the street, with a ground floor business occupying a corner building to the right. Streetcars and pedestrians are in view. In the background, the famous Central Synagogue can be seen. There is debris (possibly construction-related) in the street.
New York Transit MuseumLexington Avenue between East 53rd and 54th Streets, ahead of subway construction.
The northward extension of the IRT East Side Line, later dubbed the Lexington Avenue Line would be completed more than six years later, in 1918.
This view includes two important landmarks of Lexington Avenue religious life: at left, the 1870s-era Central Synagogue; at far right (No. 619), St. Peter's Lutheran Church. The latter building has since been replaced with an angular granite structure described by the New York Times's David Dunlap as "New York’s most architecturally successful postwar sanctuary."
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