Park Avenue, E 51st Street, New York City

View of Park Avenue, looking south from East 51st Street, Midtown Manhattan. The New York Central Building (now Helmsley Building) is in the background. Postcard by Manhattan Post Card Publishing Company. Photograph taken about 1955.

The 35-story New York Central Building at 230 Park Avenue (center), between East 45th and 46th streets was completed in 1929 as the counterpart to Grand Central Terminal. Most buildings on both sides of Park Avenue were replaced by skyscrapers. The Art Deco Waldorf Astoria, opened in 1931, is partially seen on the left on the corner of East 50th Street. The building on the right was replaced by the skyscraper Mutual of America Building at 320 Park Avenue, originally built in the early 1960s and rebuilt in 1994. The 25-story building on the southwest corner of East 50th Street, on the right, at 300 Park Avenue, was completed in 1955.