Fifth Avenue from 23rd Street

Fifth Avenue looking up from 23rd Street, junction of Broadway. Photograph taken from the structure that was replaced by the Flatiron Building was erected at the beginning of the 20th century. Source: stereographic view by Underwood & Underwood, New York Public Library.

Photograph was taken between 1859, when the Fifth Avenue Hotel, on the left, opened and 1894, when another photo showed that utility poles (seen in this photo) had already been removed. About 1885, according to New York Public Library. Madison Square Park is on the right. The old Worth House, later Madison Square Bank Building, at 1 West 25th Street (202 Fifth Avenue) is behind Worth Monument erected in 1857. The Marble Collegiate Church can be seen in the distance on 5th Avenue at 29th St. The spire of Brick Church is further away at 37th Street.

East side of Broadway, from West 25th Street (right) to West 26th St. The former Worth House is on the right, in 1910.