CONTEMPORARY NY

midtown

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001 United Nations Headquarters

002 1 United Nations Plaza

003 Beekman Tower

004 Ford Foundation Building

005 Tudor City 

Corinthian The New York Palace Hotel with Villard Houses and courtyard
006 The Corinthian 007 Sutton Place 008 Beaux Arts Apartments 009 Sniffen Court Historic District 010 Villard Houses
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011 152 East 38th Street 012 885 Third Ave Lipstick Building 013 312 and 314 East 53rd Street 014 Daily News Building 015 J.P.Morgan Chase Building   
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016 Postum Building 017 General Electric Building 018 Turtle Bay Gardens 019 Chanin Building 020 Mobil Building
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021 Chrysler Building 022 George S. Bowdoin Stable   023 Bowery Savings Bank 024 James F.D. Lanier House

025 Andy Warhol’s “Factory” 

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026 Vanderbilt Hotel

027 Scandinavia House 028 Phillip Morris Headquarters 029 23 Park Ave.at 35th Street 030 Met Life Building
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031 Grand Central Terminal

032 Waldorf-Astoria Hotel 033 Helmsley Building

034 St. Bartholomew’s Church

035 Consulate General of Poland

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036 LVMH 037 Sony Building 038 Banco di Napoli 039 IBM Building 040 Crown Building
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041 Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church 042 Trump Tower 043 Henri Bendel 044 Rockefeller Apartments 045 St. Thomas’ Church
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046 St.Regis-Sheraton Hotel 047 Scribner’s Bookstore 048 University Club 049 Tiffany’s 050 Cartier’s

rockefeller center and environs

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  051 Takashimaya 052 Saks Fifth Avenue 053 International Building 054 St. Patrick’s Cathedral
30rockefeller_main14.jpg (45524 bytes) 056a.jpg (38608 bytes) Historic New York Hotels in Midtown Manhattan
055 Rockefeller Center 056 The Plaza Hotel 057 Bergdorf Goodman 058 General Motors Building 059 Algonquin Hotel
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060 GE Building, originally RCA Building 061 Radio City Music Hall  061A THE RKO BUILDING   061B The 1 Rockefeller Plaza 061C THE TIME WARNER BUILDING

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062 Association of the Bar of the City of New York 062A Cheney Silk Company 063 Century Association Clubhouse 064 Harvard Club 065 New York Yacht Club
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066 Manufacturers Trust Company 067 New York Public Library 068 American Standard Building 069 HSBC Bank Tower 070 390 Fifth Ave.
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071 Gerard Apartments

072 Pierpont Morgan Library

073 Empire State Building

074 Macy’s

075 Collectors’ Club
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076 Church of the Incarnation 077 Hotel Martinique

078 WR Grace Building

079 Bryant Park & Bryant Park Studios 080 The Lamb’s Club
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081 Exxon Building 082 CBS Building 083 Mutual of New York Insurance 084 130 West 57th Street   085 9 West 57th Street  
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086 Columbia Artists Management 087 Museum of Modern Art     088 U.S.Trust Company 089 Rodin Studios 090 New York Athletic Club
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091 Russian Tea Room   092 Art Students’ League 093 Alwyn Court 094 Carnegie Hall 095 2 Columbus Circle
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096 Church of St. Paul the Apostle 097 City Center 55th Street Theatre 098 Brill Building 099 Equitable Center

100 Worldwide Plaza

 times square area short history- Signage, Hookers, Rise and Fall  Times Square gallery

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101 830 Eighth Ave 102 Gainsborough Studios 103 The Osborne

104 One Times Square

105 Mariott Marquis Hotel

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106 Reuters Building 107 ABC Studios 108 Astor Plaza

109 Conde Nast Building

110 Paramount Building
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111 Lyceum Theater 112 Candler Building

113 New Amsterdam Theater

114 Shubert Alley 115 St. James Theater
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116 Times Square Theater

117 Virginia Theater 118 Lunt-Fontaine Theater 119 Winter Garden Theater  120 Actor’s Studio
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121 Ed Sullivan Theater 122 236-256 West 45th St 123 Music Box Theater 124 Hearst Magazine Building 125 Belasco Theater
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125A Bertelsmann Building   125B Westin Hotel 125C New York Times Building 125D Ernst & Young 125E Al Hirschfeld Theater

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126 Manhattan Mall

127 Madison Square Garden Center

128 Port Authority Bus Terminal

129 New Yorker Hotel

130 McGraw-Hill Building

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131 Film Center Building 132 Holy Cross

133 Farley Post Office building

134 Jacob K. Javits Convention Center

135 SS Cyril & Methodius and St Raphael
IRT Powerhouse
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136 IRT Powerhouse

137 THE BUSH TOWER

138 Cheyenne Diner

139 Munson Diner

140 Market Diner

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141  Paley Park

142 THE 500 FIFTH AVENUE

143 THE NELSON TOWER

144 275 MADISON AVENUE 145 THE FRED F. FRENCH BUILDING 
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146 THE MONY TOWER 147 THE CANADA HOUSE 148 THE 10 E 40TH STREET   149 THE LINCOLN BUILDING 150 400 MADISON BLDG
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151 425 LEXINGTON AVENUE BLDG 152 444 MADISON BLDG 153 461 FIFTH AVENUE BLDG 154 THE UNIVERSAL PICTURES BUILDING 155 THE CORNING GLASS BUILDING
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156 Time Warner Center

157 1 Bryant Park

158 1 Penn Plaza

159 Trump World Tower

160 425 5th Avenue

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161 The B. Altman Department Store 162 240 Central Park South 163 St Mary the Virgin 164 St Malachy 165 Holy Innocents
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166 St John the Baptist 167 Glad Tidings Tabernacle 168 Hotel Pennsylvania


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