Manhattan '45
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: December 13, 1990
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780195066647
First sentence: SHABBY IT MIGHT BE, but 50th Street West led one directly from Pier 90 across six undistinguished city blocks to the site that, more than any other, was the pride of Manhattan in 1945: Rockefeller Center-the state of the art, as they would later say, in enlightened urban design.