Manhattan Night
These two images were taken from the roof of a building on 22nd Street, looking uptown toward midtown. Beyond the main subject here, the Empire State Building, is another icon of the Manhattan skyline—the RCA Building. It can be seen just to the left of the Empire State Building, bathed in light.
At the time of this photograph, the RCA Building had been renamed the GE Building, and would eventually be known as 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Also at this time: the ESB stood out in the area between the downtown cluster of skyscrapers and the midtown cluster. Since then, the skyline has grown considerably to give it less prominence.
The Empire State Building is located between 33rd and 34th Streets, and the RCA building between 49th and 50th Streets—while both are between 5th and 6th Avenues.
Two images by Richard Koenig; taken in December of 1994.