Vanderbilt Hotel on Fourth Avenue

Fourth Avenue, west side, from 32nd to 34th Streets (Park Avenue in 1924), showing the old Park Avenue Hotel, on the left and the Vanderbilt Hotel nearing completion. The view was taken from the roof of the old Fourth Avenue Railway (Metropolitan Railway) carbarns. At the northwest corner of 34th Street, the first building on that side of Park Avenue, stands the Unitarian Church of the Messiah erected in 1867. After 1919 it was known as the Community Church.
To the right, on the east side of the Avenue opposite the Vanderbilt Hotel, stands the 71st Regiment Armory (1893).

Vanderbilt Hotel opened its doors on January 10, 1912. The building was completed in March, 1913, The hotel was closed in 1965. The lower façade of the hotel was stripped away and the lower floors were converted into offices and stores. The upper floors were converted into residential apartments.

Source: Photographic views of New York City, 1870's-1970's, from the collections of the New York Public Library.