Merchant’s Gate and 59th Street

Merchant’s Gate and 59th Street

around 1940

Panoramic view of Merchant’s Gate and 59th Street, from Sixth Avenue to Broadway (on the right), seen from Mayflower Hotel. Photograph taken in the 1930s. Columbus Circle is to the right. The Maine Monument stands at Merchant’s Gate. The New York Athletic Club building is on the corner of 7th Avenue and 59th Street. Photograph (from New York Public Library) was taken between 1931 (when Hampshire House, 150 Central Park South, was erected, but left unfinished) and 1942 (Berkeley House, 120 Central Park South, not seen in this photo, was completed).

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Gainsborough Studios opened in 1908