Aerial view of Midtown Manhattan skyline looking north. Autumn, 1970.
The Empire State Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) dominates the ever changing skyline with Rockefeller Center's R.C.A. Building (Associated Architects, 1933), and the 500 Fifth Avenue tower (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) just behind it. The withe skyscraper at right, backgorund is the General Motors Building (Edward Durell Stone-Emery Roth & Sons, 1968).
The steel skeletons of One Astor Plaza (Kahn & Jacobs, 1972) and Uris Plaza (Emery Roth & Sons, 1972) towers, both under construction, are visibles on the extreme left of the picture. On the center, just at left of the Empre State, the steel skeleton of the Rockefeller Center's Exxon Building (Harrison, Abramovitz & Harris, 1971) under construction dominates the new Avenue of the America's office towers corridor with the Interchem Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1969) and the new J.P. Stevens Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1971) nearing completion.
Photo: Unknown.
