Hotel New Yorker, West 34th Street, Eighth Avenue

The New Yorker on the corner of West 34th Street (left) and 8th Avenue, in the 1930s, when airships flew over New York.

The Art Deco Hotel New Yorker, 43 stories high, opened in 1930 at 481 Eighth Avenue, between 34th and 35th streets, Midtown Manhattan. The hotel was designed by Sugarman and Berger Architects and had a private underground tunnel to Pennsylvania Station. Hilton Hotels acquired the hotel in 1953 and it was renovated. The hotel closed in 1972 and reopened in 1994. Since 2014, it is managed by the Wyndham Hotels & Resorts.

The 22-story Art Deco 14 Penn Plaza building, erected in 1924, is on the right on West 34th Street. Penn Plaza is a complex of 14 buildings in Midtown Manhattan, including Penn Station and Madison Square Garden.

The airship in the picture may be the USS Los Angeles built in 1923–1924 by the Zeppelin company in Germany.