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On the Avenue: 1905

New York circa 1905. "St. Regis and Gotham hotels." Looking south along Fifth Avenue at East 56th Street, a streetscape glimpsed here from a different angle. On the right, the Gotham rising behind Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

New York circa 1905. "St. Regis and Gotham hotels." Looking south along Fifth Avenue at East 56th Street, a streetscape glimpsed here from a different angle. On the right, the Gotham rising behind Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

 

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Current view

This is from Google Maps. Nice to see it's lasted nearly 100 years.

St. Regis hotel

Lovely building, and luckily, still exists. As I see, they even built a "bigger" version in Atlanta (2009). Still prefer the original one!

+101

Below is the same view from April of 2006.

Vigilant cop

The cop in the car across the street is eyeing us pretty good.

[He's a chauffeur. - tterrace]

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