Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 66th Street

Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 66th Street

This photograph portrays the style of housing in New York City in the late 19th century. The apartment buildings are narrow and tall, each reaching three or four stories high. The apartments are built of stone and brick and consist of drab colors. This image, picturing the connected row of apartment buildings along Fifth Avenue, demonstrates the rapid growth and expansion of buildings in New York City throughout the 1890s.

The New York Public Library Digital Collections

Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library. "Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 66th Street" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-e7dd-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-e7dd-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

October 21, 2015

Shannon Ferrara

1890s