Midtown Manhattan in the Sixties

Aerial view of Midtown Manhattan in the Sixties, showing the Rockefeller Center buildings, including La Maison Française, British Empire Building, Palazzo d'Italia, International North, International Building, Time & Life Building, Eastern Airlines Building, U.S. Rubber Company Building, Center Theatre, RCA Building, RCA Building West, Associated Press Building, Sports Roof atop Radio City Music Hall, RKO Building, and the Esso Building. The Americana Hotel building, on the left, opened in 1962.

Photograph by Thomas Airviews. Source: New York Public Library. More: New York in the 1960s ►