Lower Manhattan and Battery Park, Manhattan, June 16, 1937
This view of Manhattan shows Battery Park in the foreground and was taken after a burst of skyscraper construction on the island that produced some of the City’s most iconic buildings. From Left to Right across the image can be seen the Standard Oil Building (26 Broadway), the Singer Building (149 Broadway, demolished 1968), the Bank of New York Building (1 Wall St.), the Equitable Building (120 Broadway), the Woolworth Building (233 Broadway), the Continental Bank Building (30 Broad St., with the New York Stock Exchange behind it), the Trust Company of America Building (37 Wall St.), the Manhattan Trust Building (40 Wall St.), the Manhattan Municipal Building (1 Centre St.), the Bankers Trust Building (14 Wall St.), City Bank-Farmers Trust Building (20 Exchange St.), and 60 Wall Tower (70 Pine St.). The massive Empire State Building is at the top center of the image, and the Queensboro Bridge can be seen crossing the East River on the top right of the image.
