Vanderbilt Hotel on Park Avenue - about 1919
The old entrance of the Vanderbilt Hotel on Park Avenue and the entrance of its tunnel for streetcars, about 1919 (technically on Forth Avenue until 1924). Electric traction streetcars were first introduced in New York in 1889. The tunnel once carried steam trains, then streetcars for 76 years before it was converted to an automobile speedway in 1936. At the time, the gasoline bus became popular.
On the northwest corner of 34th Street we can see the old Community Church. It was demolished and replaced by the 10 Park Avenue building, erected in 1931. The ground floor boasted huge Adam-style windows with delicate fluted fans. The beautiful lower façade of the hotel, built in 1912, was stripped away in the 1960s, when the lower floors were converted into offices and stores.
Original title of this photograph: New York Railway streetcar at E. 34th Street and Fourth Avenue, New York City, undated [ca. April 1919]. Source: William D. Hassler photograph collection, approximately 1910-1921. New-York Historical Society.
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Home of William H. Vanderbilt, on the left.
Photo taken from Vanderbilt Hotel.
Vanderbilt Hotel on Park Avenue - about 1919
