Sixth Avenue and West 52nd Street NYC

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You're looking north from very near the center of the world, in 1937. The Rockefeller Center complex, behind you on your right, was not entirely complete, although Radio City Music Hall had been open for about five years at the time this photo was taken. The Sixth Avenue Elevated Line, overhead, would run for another year. It was closed in December 1938 and demolished in 1939, making way for the development of the area and the replacement of the low rises you see in this photo with majestic high rises that currently line the avenue.