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LOWER MIDTOWN

From Beaux Arts to Art Deco, this section of financier J. P. Morgan, whose library, now a
Midtown boasts some fine architecture, chic museum, reveals the grandeur of the age. The
boutiques, and towering skyscrapers, primarily commercial pace quickens at 42nd Street, near
scattered along Fifth, Madison, and Park Grand Central Terminal, where tall office
avenues. Quiet, res idential Murray Hill, between buildings line the streets. However, few of the
East 34th and East 40th streets, was named for newer buildings have equaled the Beaux Arts
a country estate that once occupied the site. By Terminal itself or such Art Deco beauties as the
the turn of the 20th century, it was home to Chrysler Building, while the Modernist United
many of New York’s first families, including the Nations complex overlooks the East River.
Sights at a Glance
Historic Streets and Buildings Museums and Galleries
2 Grand Central Terminal pp152–3 q Japan Society
3 Bowery Savings Bank Building r The Morgan Library & Museum
4 Chanin Building pp160–61
5 Chrysler Building Modern Architecture
6 Daily News Building 1 MetLife Building
7 Ford Foundation Building 9 1 and 2 United Nations Plaza
8 Helmsley Building 0 United Nations pp156–9 See also Street Finder
w Fred F. French Building maps 8, 9, 12, 13
t Sniffen Court Churches
e Church of the Incarnation

F I F T H A V E N U E M A D I S O N A V E N U E PARK AVE E A S T E A S T

Fifth Ave VANDERBILT AVENUE E A S T 4 7 T H A V E N U E 4 8 T H

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TUNNEL EXIT STREET E A S T 4 1 S T S T R E E T

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Tunnel 495
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Restaurants see pp299–302 0 meters 3 8 T H S T R E E T F I R S T FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT DRIVE E a s t Queens - Midtown
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1 Ali Baba 0 yards 400
2 Grand Central Oyster Bar
3 Michael Jordan’s Steakhouse N.Y.C
Terraced arches with triangular windows on the spire of the Chrysler Building For keys to symbols see back flap
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