The Chrysler Building towers over the midtown Manhattan skyline in this 1943
photo.
An advertisement from the 1930's for The
Empire State Building Observatory.
The Empire State
Building's peak was originally designed as a mooring mast for dirigibles. Both the
dirigable concept and the Empire State Building mooring mast concept soon passed into
oblivion.
On the foggy Saturday morning of July 28,
1945, a B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of The Empire State Building, killing 14
persons but causing only minor damage to the structure.
Lightning does
indeed strike The Empire State Building, as shown in this 1938 photo.
The Brooklyn Bridge (right), and the
Manhattan Bridge (left) span the East River in this 1929 photo.
This 1919 photo
of The Flatiron Building shows a peaceful view of Broadway and Fifth Avenue.
The huge stage of Radio City Music
Hall.
(1939 photo).
Photo from a
1930's advertisement illustrating traffic in New York City.
The "completed" Rockefeller
Center complex in an aerial
view from 1943.
A 1940's
advertisement from The New York Steam Corporation, which served Rockefeller Center.
1937 photo showing workers high atop a
building under construction in Manhattan.
