Murray Hill Hotel, Portico at Park Avenue

The portico of the old Murray Hill Hotel on Park Avenue, between 40th Street and 41st Street, in Manhattan. Street scene with men walking past entrance to hotel, American flags overhead and lamps with hotel name. The Grand Central Terminal and New York Central Building are in the background. Murray Hill Hotel opened in 1884 and it was razed by 1948.

Photo taken on November 19, 1935 by Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), Changing New York, sponsored by the Federal Art Project. Source: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection / New York Public Library.