This may be the most difficult to place shot by Angelo Rizzuto, from October 1958. The Library of Congress title “Aerial view of unidentified street with multiple traffic lanes in each direction, high-rise buildings line both sides of the street” doesn’t help.
The clue that got me there is the peaked-roof tower on the right with an odd bulbous thing at the apex. That’s the Con Edison tower at 14th Street and Irving Place. The towers off in the distance are downtown, and then it clicked: this is Third Avenue and we’re looking from 42nd Street, where the building with the glass and metal-panel curtain wall in the left foreground is located. This is telephoto-lens compression and there is no connection between the street we see and the high-rises in the background, as they’re four miles apart.
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