Manhattan: Vanderbilt Avenue - 42nd Street

(1)
Vanderbilt Avenue, north from 42nd Street, showing the Pershing Square Viaduct on the west side of the Grand Central Station, and the new New York Central Building from 45th to 46th Streets, nearing completion.
This view is from the roof of the Chemists' Club on 41st Street, and does not show the west side of Vanderbilt Avenue.
September 5, 1928.
P. L. Sperr, Photographer.
(2)
The same, looking almost straight up Vanderbilt Avenue, and
showing less of the New York Central Building.
September 5, 1928.
P. L. Sperr, Photographer.
(3)
A slightly later view, from the Murray Hill Hotel at Park Avenue and 41st Street, showing the west side of Vanderbilt Avenue. The Hotel Biltmore (opened January 1914) occupies the block from 43rd to 44th Streets, and the Yale Club (built about 1914) is on the N.W. corner of 44th Street.
October 22, 1928.
P. L. Sperr, Photographer.