York Avenue, north from East 59th Street

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York Avenue, north from East 59th Street, showing the East River Drive construction activity at the Queensboro Bridge (overhead). This necessitated a fill to enable same to continue on Marie Curie Avenue (formerly Exterior or Marginal Street). The dark buildings beyond are units of the Rockefeller Research Institute. These preceed the white buildings constituting the New York Hospital and Cornell Medical Center. August 1, 1939 P. L. Sperr