Midtown Manhattan

 

Midtown Manhattan is the central part of Manhattan, home to some of NYC's most prominent buildings, including the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, the Hudson Yards, the headquarters of the United Nations, MetLife Building, Waldorf Astoria, Grand Central Terminal, Rockefeller Center, as well as several prominent tourist destinations including Broadway Theater District, Museum of Modern Art, Madison Square Garden, Times Square, the New York Public Library Main Branch and many others. Penn Station is the busiest transportation hub in the Western Hemisphere.

Its boundaries are loosely defined as the area between Hudson and East rivers, below 59th Street and above 23rd Street (or above somewhere between the 14th and 34th streets).

Midtown's development gained momentum after the first subway line opened in 1904. The same year, the old Long Acre Square was renamed Times Square.

 

 

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Morning at 42nd Street and 1st Avenue, with Chrysler Building in the background, Midtown Manhattan. Vintage postcard, about mid-20th century, from original watercolor study by Marcus A. Van Der Hope. Source: Columbia University Libraries.

 

Fifth Avenue NYC

Looking north from 42nd Street.

 

More of Midtown Manhattan:

5th Avenue

6th Avenue

7th Avenue

42nd Street

59th Street

Bowery

Herald Square

Lexington Avenue

Madison Square

Park Avenue

Times Square

United Nations

 

 

Park Avenue in the 21st century, showing the MetLife Building (former Pan Am) and the Helmsley Building. Credit: 200 Park Avenue.

 

Heckscher Building

 

Midtown Manhattan Fifties

 

Skyscrapers

 

Skyscrapers in Midtown Manhattan seen from Hudson River, with the Empire State Building in the distance and Hudson Yards on the right. Credit: Julienne Schaer/ NYC Tourism + Conventions.

 

Times Square

 

Barbizon Hotel

 

Park Avenue

 

St. Regis Hotel

 

Broadway Theatre

 

Old Times Square

 

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Park Avenue Hotel

 

Ritz Tower

 

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Grand Central Terminal

 

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Ambassador Theatre

 

Shelton Hotel

 

Naval Arch

 

Hotel Vanderbilt

 

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Crystal Palace

 

Hudson Yards

 

Airships

 

Allerton House Women

 

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Times Square night

 

Winter Garden

 

Flatiron District

 

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Knickerbocker Hotel

 

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Hotel McAlpin

 

Fraternity Clubs Building

 

New York City 1951

 

 

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NYC Broadway

Later Herald Square.

 

Construction UN

 

Times Square images

 

Empire State images

 

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