Park Avenue from E 46th Street, New York City

View of Park Avenue, looking north from East 46th Street, Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Postcard by Manhattan Post Card Pub. Co., copyright 1964 by Dexter Press. Text on print: "This famous street represents the elegance, luxury and wealth of New York. A long the Avenue are the tall apartment residences, luxurious hotels, private clubs and mansions famous for the wealth they enclose". The Helmsley Building is behind the photographer.

The building on the extreme right was the Grand Central Palace, which occupied the block, between 46th and 47th streets. It was demolished in 1964 and replaced by the 48-story skyscraper 245 Park Avenue, completed in 1967.

The 50-story office building at 277 Park Avenue was erected on the vacant plot seen, between East 47th and 48th streets, on the right. It was originally known as the Chemical Bank New York Trust Company Building. It topped-out in September, 1963 and opened on July 13, 1964. This skyscraper replaced an old apartment building on the site, completed in 1925 and demolished in 1962.

The 250 Park Avenue office building is partially see on the extreme left, between 46th and 47th streets, built in the 1920s. At the time, it housed offices of the Westchester Racing Association, the Jockey Club and the American Petroleum Institute.

The 52-story skyscraper at 270 Park Avenue, on the left, between East 47th and 48 streets, was completed in 1960 as Union Carbide Building. It was demolished from 2019 to 2021 to make way for the 70-story JPMorgan Chase Building.

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