Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan

Aerial photograph of Midtown Manhattan with Rockefeller Center, looking east toward East River. Photo dated June 1936. Source: Mitchel Field, Records of the Army Air Forces, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

Photo shows several skyscrapers in Midtown Manhattan, including the RCA Building, the Ritz Tower, a 41-story apartment hotel on Park Avenue, the Waldorf Astoria at 301 Park Avenue, the New York Central Building, now Helmsley Building. The Sixth Avenue and its elevated tracks are in the foreground. St. Patrick's Cathedral is behind Rockefeller Center.