Buildings in Madison Square NY

Madison Square, looking northeast, Manhattan. Policeman stands in front of Seward statue, shoe-shine man lounges on railing, right. Buildings rise above park on Madison Avenue, the tallest being The New York Life Insurance Company Building, completed in 1928.

Photograph taken on March 20, 1936, by Berenice Abbott (1898-1991). Source: Changing New York collection, Federal Art Project, from New York Public Library