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5th Avenue & 22nd Street, Manhattan

13 historical photos taken here between 1855 and 1935, oldest first.

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  • Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 22nd Street, 1855

    Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 22nd Street

    1855

  • Manhattan: 5th Avenue - [Between 22nd and 23rd Streets], 1902

    Manhattan: 5th Avenue - [Between 22nd and 23rd Streets]

    1902

  • Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 22nd Street, 1903

    Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 22nd Street

    1903

  • West 21st St. - Ryer Mfg. Co. - Sternberger, Sinn & Co., brokers Dunlap & CO, hatters - No. 182 Pennsylvania R.R. Co.], 1911

    West 21st St. - Ryer Mfg. Co. - Sternberger, Sinn & Co., brokers Dunlap & CO, hatters - No. 182 Pennsylvania R.R. Co.]

    1911

  • No. 155 Chas. Scribner's Sons, publishers - O.J. Dude Co. - Flatiron Building - East 23rd St.], 1911

    No. 155 Chas. Scribner's Sons, publishers - O.J. Dude Co. - Flatiron Building - East 23rd St.]

    1911

  • Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 22nd Street, 1923

    Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 22nd Street

    1923

  • Manhattan: 22nd Street (West) - 5th Avenue, 1925

    Manhattan: 22nd Street (West) - 5th Avenue

    1925

  • Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 22nd Street, 1928

    Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 22nd Street

    1928

  • Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 22nd Street, 1929

    Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 22nd Street

    1929

  • Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 22nd Street, 1933

    Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 22nd Street

    1933

  • Manhattan: 22nd Street (West) - 5th Avenue, 1935

    Manhattan: 22nd Street (West) - 5th Avenue

    1935

  • Manhattan: 22nd Street (West) - 5th Avenue, 1935

    Manhattan: 22nd Street (West) - 5th Avenue

    1935

  • Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 22nd Street

    Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 22nd Street

    Unknown

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Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 22nd Street, 1855

Photo 1 of 13 at 5th Avenue & 22nd Street, Manhattan

Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 22nd Street

1855

Fifth Avenue at 22nd Street and north, showing at right the old Hotel St. Germain. On the S.E. corner of 22nd Street a small house has just been demolished. The brick house below it, in right foreground, is new. The hotel, built in 1853-54, is also new. The remainder of this triangular block, today (1935) the site of the Flatiron Building, will by 1859 be filled with four small houses facing on Fifth Avenue. The houses on the S.W. corner of 22nd Street are new. On the N.W. corner of 23rd Street stands the short-lived Franconi's New York Hippodrome, about to be torn down for the erection of the Fifth Avenue Hotel (at first called the Mount Vernon Hotel), 1859-1908. In the background may be seen the spire of the Marble Collegiate Church (Dutch Reformed), at N.W. corner of 29th Street. Some of the houses which may be seen on E. 26th Street across Madison Square were standing as late as 1912. Compare this early photograph with the same view in 1903 and 1925. 1855 or 1856. On front of photograph, in lower right corner: Old hotel St. Germain #71 Fifth Ave. ??? ? E 22nd St. N.Y.

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