National Academy of Design, Fourth Avenue and 23rd Street

The National Academy of Design (northwest corner) and the Lyceum Theatre (right), East 23rd Street and Fourth Avenue (now Park Avenue South). On the southwest corner, across the street, there was the old YMCA Building, demolished in 1903. The three-story Lyceum Theatre building was erected in 1885 and operated until 1902, when it was demolished to make way for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company building. Tower of the old Madison Square Presbyterian Church is on the left, behind buildings.

Photograph from the Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, New York Public Library. Dated 1895 (or before), when the brownstone residential buildings on the left were demolished.