It Looked Familiar: Background

The set-up for a public ceremony to be attended by Captain America:

Google street view from Sixth Avenue, looking east across Bryant Park:

In case anyone is wondering:

1. 101 Park Avenue
2. The Lefcourt Colonial Building, 295 Madison Avenue
3. 475 Fifth Avenue
4. 461 Fifth Avenue
5. 10 East 40th Street
6. 100 Park Avenue (the weird-looking back of the building)
7. 453 Fifth Avenue, now the Mid-Manhattan Library, formerly a department store
8. 275 Madison Avenue
9. 24 West 40th Street
10. 32 West 40th Street, an apartment house that used to be The Engineers Club.
11. The American Standard Building, 40 West 40th Street.

And in front of 1, 2, 3, and 4: the back of the New York Public Library. The big arched windows are the main reading room.