The Plaza Hotel and West 59th Street (Central Park South) from Fifth Avenue. Central Park is to the right. Source: Detroit Publishing Company photograph collection, Library of Congress.
Central Park South, a section of West 59th Street between Columbus Circle and Grand Army Plaza, received this name in 1896. Old mansions on West 58th Street (enlargement below) are on the left and the Times Building is seen in the distance. On the right, Central Park South (enlargement below), the old New York Athletic Club building (demolished about 1928 to make way for the Hotel St. Moritz) is on the corner of 6th Avenue and the Navarro Flats, is on the corner of Seventh Avenue.
This
Plaza Hotel dominates this image (part of the façade is enlarged below). It is
located between West 59th Street, Grand Army Plaza and West 58th St. The Plaza opened
in 1907, built in French Renaissance style on the same site of the
old Hotel Plaza.
