List of Illustrations.
Full information and credits are in the captions within the chapter texts.
Chapter 1: to 1869
Fig. 1. Commissioners’ Plan, 1811, map of the later West 42nd Street area
Fig. 2. Late l9th century map showing approximately the same area
Fig.3 Map, Stiles engraver, Walker publisher, 1840, entire street as northern boundary of development
Fig.4. Colored Orphan Asylum and view south to reservoir, 1847
Fig.5. Rioters burning Weehawken Ferry installations, 1863
Fig.6. Perris Map, 1857-62, Fourth to Sixth Avenues, north side of 42nd Street
Fig.7. View to lower Manhattan, from Latting Tower, with reservoir and Crystal Palace, John Bachmann, 1855.
Figs.8. and 9. The distributing reservoir
Fig.10. Crystal Palace, Latting Observatory. Capewell & Kimmel print, 1853
Fig. 11. Crystal Palace, interior, 1854
Fig.12. Latting Observatory, woodcut, 1853
Fig. 13. Dutch Hill, view from schoolhouse
Fig. 14. Dripps Plan, 1868, detail with Ward School, later P.S. 17.
Fig. 15. Ward School 27, though still called 36 in the outdated caption.
Fig.16. House of Mansions, later Rutgers Female Institute and College
Fig. 17. Dripps Plan, 1868, far west end of 42nd Street.
Fig. 18. Perris & Browne map, 1857, north side of 42nd Street and farther north
Fig. 19. Odell Organ Factory, West 42nd Street.
Fig. 20..Holy Cross R.C. Church façade, 1868-70
Fig.21. Dripps Plan, 1868. 7th to 8th Avenue, with Asylum for the elderly.
Fig. 22. Wooden shacks near Crystal Palace, Photo attributed to Victor Prevost
Fig. 23. West Presbyterian Church, exterior. Valentine’s Manual
Fig.24. Montagnie Ward House, as enlarged c. 1900
Fig. 25. Holy Trinity (Episcopal) Chapel, 1855. Valentine’s Manual
Fig. 26. Central Baptist Church, Bruce Free Library, St Louis Academy.
Fig. 27. Harmonie Club as originally designed. King’s Handbook, 1893
Fig. 28. Harmonie Club as enlarged, 1897-98
Fig.29. St. Cloud Hotel, Valentine’s Manual
Chapter 2 The 1870s
Fig. 1. 42nd Street to the west from Third Avenue to the Grand Central Depot, with the El spur.
Fig.2. Sixth Avenue El station at 42nd Street
Fig.3. East 42nd Street in 1872, reconstruction drawing, 1922. Valentine’s Manual
Fig.4. F.W. Schoonmaker’s pharmacy in c. 1895.
Fig.5.Houses at 332-336 East 42nd Street.
Fig.6 East 42nd Street looking west from near First Avenue in 1925
Fig.7.Bromley Map, 1891.Prospect Place, Block 1335.
Fig.8.Robinson Map, 1885. Prospect Place, Block 158.
Fig.9.Chapel, later Church of the Covenant. Exterior
Fig.10. 42nd Street to east from 2nd Avenue, with four levels of roadway.
Fig.11. Chapel, later Church of the Covenant, interior.
Fig.12 Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled, exterior.
Fig.13.Grand Union Hotel, with the Grand Central Depot and Annex in partial view. Valentine’s Manual
Fig.14.Holy Trinity (Episcopal) church, exterior.
Fig.15.Ward, then Morton house as offices and hotel in 1893.
Fig.16.Hotel Bristol exterior. Hotel postcard 1891.
Fig.17 Proposed plan of improvements for Reservoir (now Bryant) Park, 1871
Fig.18. Bryant Park, air view 1931 with layout akin to that of Fig. 17.
Fig.19. Overin’s Stables at 7th Avenue and 42nd Street
Fig.20. Forty-second Street Presbyterian Church, exterior.
Fig.21. 300 block, West 42nd Street, with Kaufman’s red, white, and blue military surplus store
Fig.22.Grand Central Depot in 1872.
Fig.23. The same. Train shed.
F1g.24 The same. North end of the train shed.
Chapter 3. The 1880s.
Fig.1. New York Circulating Library, Bruce branch, 1888.
Fig.,2. 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue, toward Fifth Avenue. Shayne’s fur shop featured.
Fig.3. West Shore Horel, postcard before 1929.
Fig.4. Holy Cross church, interior (appearance after 1886)
Fig.5. Home Bank, 303 West 42nd Street, in 1927.
Fig.6.Percival residence, plan of floors 2 through four in 1883
Fig.7.Rossmore Hotel, later Metropole. Exterior. .Frank Leslie’s Magazine, 1876
Fig.8. Hotel Metropole, men’s bar, café, and restaurant, 1915
Fig.9. The same. Café interior, 1915
Fig.10 Hotel Metropole entrance to Rathskeller, 1915.
Fig.11. Morton house as enlarged c. 1900.
Fig.12.Manhattan Storage Warehouse, 1882.
Fig.13.Lincoln Bank and Safe Storage Company, 1883. Photo ca. 1910.
Fig.14.Part of the Grand Central Depot, a bridge to its annex, Grand Union Hotel.
Fig.15.Pottier, Stymus & Co. factory, ca. 1889.
Fig.16.Tunnel at Prospect Place toward the east in 1925.
Fig.17. The same, toward the west.
Chapter 4: The 1890s
Fig.1. Lexington Avenue at 42nd Street in 1902.
Fig.2.Tenements designed by Ernest Flagg for the New York Fireproof Tenement Association.
Fig.3. The same. Photographed in 2023
Fig.4. St. Bartholomew’s Parish House and Clinic.
Fig.5. Hotel Manhattan, exterior, print.
Fig.6.Hotel Wellington. Valentine’s Manual
Fig.7.Hotel Manhattan, exterior, photograph
Fig.8. The same. Rotunda interior.
Fig.9. Pabst Hotel and adjacent buildings, 1899.
Fig.10. Bryant Park Arcade building containing Fleischman’s Baths, 1910
Figs.11 and 12. Murray Hill Baths, view of pool, and business card.
Fig. 13. American Théâtre, 1893. Lesser entrance on 42nd Street.
Fig.14. American Theatre roof garden in 1898.
Fig.15. Hammerstein’s Victoria Theatre, Exterior
Fig.16. The same, Lobby
Fig.17. The same, Auditorium
Fig.18. The same, Rooftop Dutch Farm.
Fig. 19 First Grand Central Depot with bridge to the Annex. A corner of the Grand Union hotel at right.
Fig.20 Second Grand Central Depot, later called Grand Central Station, exterior, 1900
Fig.21. The same. Interior of iron and glass train shed.
Fig.22. The same. North side exterior of the train shed.
Chapter 5. The 1900s.
Fig.1. Grand Central Terminal, cutaway view of the levels
Fig.2. Depew Place before Grand Central Terminal was completed.
Fig.3. Grand Central Terminal, the spur of the Third Avenue El, Hotel Belmont, Vanderbilt Building in its original size, Hotel Manhattan behind (east of) it. Subterranean loop tracks exposed.
Fig.4.Grand Central Terminal upper concourse, view to east.
Fig.5. The same. View to west.
Fig.6 The same. Upper concourse with original streams of light from south side.
Fig.7. The same. Corridor to subway, ramp to Vanderbilt Avenue
Fig.8. The same. Ramp from upper to lower concourse where Oyster Bar and food court are located.
Fig.9. The same. Two views of the Oyster Bar.
Fig.10. The same. Lower concourse in its original condition.
Fig.ll.. The reservoir under demolition, 1899.
Fig.12. New York Public Library, known popularly as the 42nd St. Library. View from Fifth Avenue.
Fig.13. The same. Bird’s eye view 1959.
Fig.14. The same. Cutaway drawing of the stack and delivery system.
Fig.15. The same. Third floor plan, showing north and south courts, catalogue room, main reading room
Fig.16. The same. Main reading room
Fig.17. The same. Exterior view of the back of the Library with long windows lighting the stacks
Fig.18 The same. Borrowers’ room, now the Bartos Forum. Original appearance.
Fig.19. The same. One of a pair of lions in front of the Fifth Avenue façade.
Fig.20. New York Times Building.
Fig.21 Hotel Belmont, exterior view
Fig.22. The same. Palm Room
Fig.23. Hotel Knickerbocker, exterior view
Fig.24. Murray’s Roman Gardens, interior of main dining room
Fig.25.Childs Restaurant, probably 47 East 42nd Street, 1906
Fig.26.New Amsterdam Theatre, 42nd Street entrance. 1903.
Fig.27. The same. Auditorium, boxes, part of stage.
Fig.28.Franklin Savings Bank, at Eighth Avenue, 1900
Fig.29. Bryant Park Arcade Building, 1907, Photo in 1910.
Fig.30. The same. Interior of pool with female bathers, 1910.
Fig.31.Transit Building, 5-7 East 42nd Street and adjacent buildings, 1903.
Figs.32. and 33. Two views of P.S. 27 as rebuilt, 1908
Fig.34. New York Kindergarten Society Building.
Chapter 6. The 1910s.
Fig.1. East end of 42nd Street. Tenements, administrative building, shacks. Trolley track installation 1917
Fig.2.West end of 42nd Street, from Tenth Avenue to the Hudson River in 1937.
Fig.3.West 42nd Street looking east from the 42nd Street ferry, 1915 or 1916.
Fig.4.West 42nd Street from west of Tenth Avenue, 1937. Park & Tilford warehouse at right.
Fig.5. The Armory, formerly Lane Bryant and Park & Tilford warehouse.
Fig.6. Between First Avenue and the East River in 1932.
Fig.7.Rialto Theatre, façade, 1916.
Fig.8. The same. Interior to orchestra and stage.
Fig.9.Apollo and Times Square Theatres, 1920, in 1922.
Fig.10 a and b. Exterior drawing, and interior photograph of stage of the Eltinge Theatre, 1912.
Fig.11.Heidelberg (later: Crossroads) Building, under construction in 1910.
Fig.12. The same. Lower levels, east end of the building.
Fig.13. The same, being demolished.
Fig.14.Candler Building, 1913.
Fig.`15.Candler Theatre interior, 1914.
Fig.16.Aeolian Hall, 1912 exterior
Fig.17. The same. Auditorium.
Fig.18.Longacre Building 1911-12 in 1926.
Fig.19.Carbide Building, 300 Madison Avenue
Fig.20.Vanderbilt Avenue Building, first stage, 1913.
Fig.21.Vanderbilt Avenue Building as enlarged.
Fig.22. Astor Trust Building, 1917
Fig.23. The same. Detail of top floors.
Fig.24.Bush Tower from the east, Postcard before 1919.
Fig.25. The same, photograph from the West, 1917. Knickerbocker Hotel at right edge.
Fig.26.Heckscher Building
Fig.27.Zoning diagrams, 1916
Fig.28.Wurlitzer Building
Fig.29.Commodore Hotel, exterior, 1919.
Fig.30.West Shore Hotel, for contrast with Commodore.
Fig.31. Hotel Ennis, 1915, another contrasting example but a more typical hotel of the time.
Fig.32 Commodore Hotel, shop for the staff of Commodore and related hotels.
Fig.33.Chef Leoni requiring cooks to exercise on hotel roof, 1920.
Fig.34.New Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled at 303 east 42nd Street, 1912
Fig.35.Stern Brothers Department Store
Fig.36. Eagle Hut, Bryant Park, 1917-18
Fig.37. People reading farming information in Bryant Park,1918
Fig.38.Man observing demonstration garden, Bryant Park, 1918
Fig.39. Grand Central Terminal with viaduct crossing over 42nd Street and vehicular roadway
Fig.40. Grand Central viaduct crossing over 42nd Street, in 1925.
Chapter 7 The 1920s
Fig.1.View east from Park Avenue in 1954
Fig.2.John W. Campbel apartment office and living room in Grand Central, c. 1923
Fig.3.Second type of Fifth Avenue traffic light, photographed in 1923
Fig.4.Schrafft’s at 13 East 42nd Street, 1929. Display window.
Fig.5.Schrafft’s in the Chrysler Building, 1931, soda counter.
Fig.6.Horn & Hardart Co. Automat at 1557 Broadway, elements typical of other sites
Fig.7.Weehawken Ferry Building exterior as damaged by fire, 1930
Fig.8. The same, interior view, 1930.
Fig.9.Liggett Building, 1922
Fig.10.Vanderbilt building as enlarged, with image of Grand Central Terminal in 1975
Fig.11.Pershing Square Building, 1923
Fig.12.Bowery Savings Bank, exterior with annex 1933
Fig.13. The same. Interior of the banking hall.
Fig.14. The same. Bronze grille now near subway entrance.
Fig.15. The same. Newsstand outside the building, 1936.
Fig.16.Corn Exchange Bank, Grand Central Branch at 3 East, 1927
Fig.17.Corn Exchange Bank, 157 East, 1926.
Fig.18.Demolition of the spur of the Third Avenue El, 1924.
Fig.19.Outside Hubert’s Flea Circus, 1953
Fig.20.Elk Hotel, built 1920s. Condition in 2023.
Fig.21.113 West. Remington Building, from the southeast, 1926.
Fig.22.Chanin Building, 1929, Photo from the east to Lexington Avenue side, 1954
Fig.23. The same. Lower parts of Lexington Avenue side., c 1930
Fig. 24. The same. Bus terminal interior c. 1933
Fig.25. The same. Exterior ornament, detail
Fig.26. Industrial buildings and empty lots east of Forst Avenue at 42nd Street.
Fig.27.Tenements along First Avenue below Tudor City, l927
Fig.28.Tudor City, preliminary design.
Fig.29. The same. Apartment houses on Tudor City Place
Fig.30 The same. A garden in the 1930s.
Fig.31. The same. Woodstock Tower, 320 East. 1929
Figs.32 and 33. The same. Hotel Tudor, in 1931 and 2023 as Hotel Westgate
Fig.34.Church of the Covenant, after 1927, condition in 1995
Fig.35.Preston Hotel, later Commodore Athletic Club, later Hotel Holland. 1927
Fig.36.Salmon Tower, 11 West, 1927, among other buildings, seen from the southwest in 1939.
Fig.37. The same. Closer view, 2025
Fig.38. The same. Doorway.
Fig. 39.500 Fifth Avenue. Salmon tower partial view is at left. Ward house partial view is at right.
Fig.40. The same. Lobby, elevator bank, ground floor.
Fig.41.Chrysler Building. Chanin Building is at left.
Fig42. Building preceding Chrysler Building, 1928
Fig.43.Chrysler Building, two of the preliminary designs
Fig.44. The same. Lobby (in the 1970s with refreshed lighting)
Fig.45 The same/ Elevator exterior.
Fig.46. The same. Observatory.
Fig.47. The same. Dining room in the Cloud Club
Fig.48.Bartholomew Building. 205 East 42nd Street, façade, 1929
Fig.49..Lincoln Building, 60 East, now called One Grand Central Place, 1930.
Fig.50. Daily News Building, seen beyond the Bowery Savings Bank and Hotel Belmont in 1954
Fig.51Daily News Building, entrance sculpture by Rene Chambellan, 1930
Fig.52. The same. Lobby with scientific installations
Fig.53.McGraw-Hill Building, 1931 exterior view
Fig.54. The same. Detail of entrance and horizontal windows
Chapter 8. The 1930s and 1940s
Fig.1.Dixie (later Carter) Hotel, 1931, postcard views of exterior, bedroom, and public rooms
Fig.2a.Dixie Hotel, postcard ca. 1929 showing bus depot. 2b. Diagrams of the bus terminal interior
Fig.3.Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank, façade after 1932
Fig.4.Drake’s Restaurant, postcard view.
Fig.5.Edward Laming, “Moses Gives the Tablets of the Law” painting in New York Public Library rotunda, 1938-1942.
Fig.6.People using telescope outside Bryant Park, ca. 1930
Fig.7.West 42nd Street at Eleventh Avenue, June 30, 1937
Fig.8.Adler (“Elevated”) Shoe store and its neighbors on either side.
Fig.9.Pershing Square Building with Stouffer’s restaurant at street level in 1940.
Fig.10.Stouffer’s restaurant interior. Men’s grill set for dinner.
Fig.11. The same. London Room, with murals.
Fig.12.Foltis-Fischer Cafeteria, 1931, photograph ca. 1932-38
Fig.13. 251-257 West. Cane Building, containing Loft’s Candy Corp. shop and other shops.
Fig.14.Barton’s Candy shop at 208 West, 1949, exterior
Fig.15.Barton’s Candy shop, uncertain east side location, interior.
Fig.16.Rialto Theatre, 1935, with mural by Alex Katz, 1977
Fig.17.Ventilation tower at the East River end of 42nd Street, 1940, street level view
Fig.18.Air view of the ventilation tower and the Robert Moses playground, 1941
Fig.19.Airlines Terminal, at Park Avenue, postcard view, 1941
Fig.20. The same, interior view, postcard view.
Fig.21. The same, diagram of the building interior
Fig.22.Pershing Square Information Center, 1939, under the Grand Central viaduct.
Fig.23. The same. Interior view.
Fig.24.Chrysler automobile showroom in the Chrysler Building, 1936.
Fig.25.Bryant Park, as remodeled in 1934.
Fig.26.Grand Central Terminal upper concourse, wartime photographic mural, 1941.
Fig.27.Grand Central Terminal United Services Organization lounge for military officers.
Fig.28.Pix Theatre, interior, 1939.
Fig.29.Tudor City tunnel, 1950. Photo taken 2023.
Chapter 9. The 1950s.
Fig.1.The Cremorne Mission, 434 West.
Fig.2.United States Post Office, west of 8th Avenue, 1952.
Fig.3. Businesses, Seventh to Eighth Avenue, 205 to 264 West, from Nirenstein’s Atlas c. 1957.
Fig.4. I.M. Pei, Proposal for Grand Central Terminal site. Hyperboloid skyscraper, 1956, unbuilt.
Fig.5. Fellheimer & Wagner, proposal for Grand Central Terminal site, 1954.
Fig.6. Socony-Mobil Building, lower floors and arched entrance. Shown as finished except for lowest floors
Figs.7 a. and b. The same. View from east, and view of lowest floors and entrance arch.
Fig.9.Chrysler Building and Chrysler Building East (later; Kent Building, Calcyon Building.), 1952.
Fig.8.200 East, called the Lorillard Building, 1958
Fig.10.Horn & Hardart Automat, on the Foltis-Fisher cafeteria site. Uncertain date.
Fig.11.201 East. Construction image, c.1964.
Fig.12 The same, as built, photographed in 2025.
Fig.13.235 East. Pfizer World Headquarters, 1961, adding building 219 East at its left, formerly American Express but re-clad.
Fig.14.800 Second Avenue (at 42nd Street), 1957
Fig.15.Daily News Annex, 1957-1960.
Chapter 10. The 1960s.
Fig.1.Circle Line building
Fig.2.Sheraton Motor Inn, 1962, now Consulate General of China. Silver Towers and One River Place at right.
Fig.3a. Side of Consulate General of China, Gritsipis restaurant building, Sky apartments. Fig. 3b. Gritsipis restaurant, exterior.
Fig.4.FedEx building, 560 West 42nd Steet, l940.
Fig.5.Volk’s Hotel and Restaurant, undated view, c.1905 (?)
Fig.6.Aeolian Hall ground floor remodeled by City University, 1969-1971. 6a. Entrance 6b. Passageway and exhibition area.
Fig.7.Emigrant Savings Bank Building, 1969, photographed in 2025.
Fig.8.330 Madison Avenue, 1961
Fig.9.300 East, 1964, photographed in 2025.
Fig.10.Ford Foundation Building, from the east, 1967. Photographed in 2025.
Fig.11 The same, view from the west. Photographed in 2025.
Fig.12. The same. Interior with garden by Dan Kiley as modified by September 2016
Fig.13.Dag Hammarskjold Library of the United Nations at left. Tunnel ventilation building and Robert Moses playground on the right.
Chapter 11. The 1970s.
Fig.1 Alex Katz’s “Nine Women” on Rialto Theatre, 1977.
Fig.2.Crossroads Building with Richard Haas’s replica of the Times tower, 1979.
Fig.3.Theatre Row, 1970s, condition in 2023.
Fig.4.Manhattan Plaza, 1977 with some later recreational facilities between the housing towers.
Fig.5.Port Authority Bus Terminal, north wing, 1979
Fig.6.George Segal, “The Commuters” 1980.
Fig.7. Telephone company building, Kahn & Jacobs, 1974, alias Verizon Building, 1095 Avenue of the Americas,
Fig.8.Grace Building, 1972
Fig.9.Hyatt hotel, lobby with sculpture by Jaume Plensa. Condition in August 2025.
Fig.10. Hyatt hotel, lobby to protruding balcony bar with sculpture. Condition in August 2025
Figs.11-13. Philip Morris Building, now called Altria, Ulrich Franzen, exterior views, 2023, 2025.
Fig.14. The same. Atrium interior, in 2023.
Fig.15. Harley Hotel, now Westin Grand Central, porte cochere and east side wall
Fig.15. The same. 42nd Street Elevation.
Fig.17 NYU midtown lounge, Voorsanger & Mills, 1979
Fig.18. The same. Large conference room.
Chapter 12. The 1980s.
Fig.1.Bryant Park Building, 1100 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue), façade 1984 as remodeled by Kohn Pedersen Fox.
Fig.2.McGraw-Hill Building lobby as revised in 1981.
Fig.3.Stephen Antonakos, “Neon for 42nd Street” 1981.
Fig.4.Riverbank West, 1987, Forty-second Street front.
Fig.5. The same. View from west to entire tower.
Fig.6. The Strand tower, 1988
Fig.7a and b. Pershing Square café under the viaduct at Grand Central Terminal, c.1986 in 2025.
Fig.8.Celeste Bartos Forum, 1986.
Fig.9.Proposed towers for Times Square by Johnson/Burgee, 1984.
Fig.10.Chez Josephine restaurant, between Theatre Row and Playwrights’ Horizon,
Chapter 13. The 1990s.
Fig.1. Hilton Times Square, 2000 and the Empire (originally Eltinge) Theatre in its new location.
Fig.2.Tom Otterness, “Time and Money” 2000
Fig.3.Subway entrance, Times Square, 1996, photo l998
Fig.4.Times Square Brewery with half-size Concorde airplane replica on top 1996-2001, and subway entrance, photo l998
Fig.5. New Amsterdam Theatre auditorium.
Fig.6. The same. Former men’s smoking room.
Fig.7.New Victory (originally Republic) Theatre/
Fig.8. New 42nd Street Building and Duke Theater. 2000.
Fig.9.E Walk. Details of ground floor facades in 2023.
Fig.10.Westin Hotel and entertainment complex, 8th Avenue side in 2025
Fig.11.4 Times Square, air view surrounded by other buildings, 1999.
Fig.12. The same. Diagram of environmental provisions
Fig.13. The same. Entrance on 42nd Street
Fig.14. The same: corner at Broadway. Times tower at left.
Fig.15. The same: cafeteria, by Frank O. Gehry: model of the whole, model: detail.
Fig.16.3 Times Square, 2001, appearance after 2021.
Fig.17.Times Square proposed tower. Frank O. Gehry.
Fig.18. Kiosk, Bryant Park, c.1992, in 2025
Fig.19.Cafe in foreground, restaurant at rear, in Bryant Park, c. 1992. Photo in 2025.
Fig.20. Beaux-Arts public toilet, c. 1911. Photo in 2023
Fig.21.Bryan Clarke, glass installation, Pfizer Building, 1996-97.
Fig.22. Grand Central Terminal, new escalators down to food hall and lower concourse; market at rear of image. Photo in 2025.
Fig.23. The same. Interior of food market.
Fig.24. The same. Vanderbilt Hall, ex-waiting room, used for sports, 2025
Fig.25. The same. Roberto Juarez. “Field of Wild Flowers.”1997
Fig.26. The same. Christian Boltanski, “Lost and Found” 1995/
Chapter 14. The 2000s.
Fig.1.One River Place, 2001
Fig.2.Silver Towers, 2009
Fig.3.Tom Otterness, “Playground” jungle gym giant, 2007, installed 2023, Photo in 2023
Fig.4.Silver Towers, outdoor space.
Fig.5. Atelier, 2005. Photo in 2025.
Fig.6. The same, seen from the west.
Fig.7.Housing at 517-521 West with limited rent. 2006.
Fig.8.534 West.2009. Photo 2023 while it was still occupied.
Fig.9.MiMA, 2010.
Fig.10. Theatre Tower, 420 West, 2002
Fig.11 a and b. One, at 360 West 43rd St. 2002 11a: western façade 11b: 42nd St. façade.
Fig.12.Orion condominium, 2006
Fig.13. The same, lobby and cladding of lower floors
Fig.14. The same, lobby interior
Fig.15.Roy Lichtenstein, mural at Times Square subway station, 1994
Fig.16.Jacob Lawrence, mosaic mural at Times Square subway station, 2000
Fig.17. 11 Times Square, 2011.
Fig.l8. The same, closer view of low element at corner.
Fig.19.5 Times Square, 2002.
Fig.20.7 Times Square, 2004
Fig.21.Hilton Garden Inn, 2014.
Fig.22. SalesForce Building, ex. AT&T, Verizon, at 1095 Sixth Avenue, alias 3 Bryant Park. 2007
Fig.23.Plaza beside SalesForce Building, remodeled 2016 distant view.
Fig.24. One Bryant Park, south and east faces.
Fig.24. The same, south face to east corner.
Fig.25 New York Public Library, south court, sections.
Fig.26 The same, interior
Fig. 27. 505 Fifth Avenue, 2006
Figs.28 a and b. 300 Madison Avenue, details of exterior, 2003
Fig.29. The same. Lobby for the PWC corporation.
Fig.30 “Trylons” glass pyramids between the Chrysler and Kent buildings.
Chapter 15. The 20-teens
Fig.1.The Sky, 2016. Part of the Atelier is at the left
Fig.2. The same. Main entrance.
Fig.3.Out Hotel, 520 West. Building remodeled 2012.
Fig.4.Signature Theatre, cutaway of model of the entire building by Frank O. Gehry
Fig.5. The same. Model of one theater inside.
Fig.6.Plaza to the west of the SalesForce Building remodeled 2016, closer view.
Fig.7.New York Public Library, proposed stacks replacement, 2012
Fig.8.1100 Avenue of the Americans, alias 2 Bryant Park, remodeled 2024 by MdeAS
Fig.9.330 Madison Avenue 2012
Fig.10.One Vanderbilt, 2020, from Third Avenue
Fig.11.Ford Foundation garden as reconfigured by Raymond Jungles
Chapter 16. The 2020s and Conclusion
Fig.1. The Ellery, 2024, view to the west.
Fig.2. Bryant Park. Summer outdoor reading room.
Fig.3.Bryant Park, magazine racks
Fig.4.Nick Cave, “Each One, Every One, Equal All” 2022
Fig.5.Times Tower, with new signs, At right, part of 4 Times Square.
Fig.6.1100 Sixth Avenue, re-clad in 2024.
Fig.7.McGraw-Hill Building, new entrance proposal
Fig.8.One Vanderbilt. 2024, view from the west. Photo: Author, 8 2025
Fig.9. The same. View from the east. Photo: Author, 9 1 2025
Fig.10 The same: southwest corner, Photo: Author, 8 4 2025
Fig.11Tony Cragg, “Untitled” One Vanderbilt southeastern lobby. Photo: Author, 4 2025
Fig.12. Plaza created by closing part of Vanderbilt Avenue. Photo: Author 2025.
Figs 13 and 14. Proposed new Port Authority Bus Terminal, 2024
Fig.15.Bryant Park, café and restaurant, Photo: Author 2025.