A closer look

This is another view of midtown Manhattan looking north from the observation deck of the World Trade Center when I visited there in 1994. You can clearly see several iconic landmarks, including the Empire State Building (on the left) and the Chrysler Building (on the right).

A zoomed-in view looking up 5th Avenue in Manhattan.

The most visible avenue in the image is Fifth Avenue which ends at Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. It runs by the Empire State Building at 34th Street. The distance from where I took the photo to the arch in Washington Square Park (visible at the bottom of the photo) is roughly two miles (3 km); the Empire State Building is just over a mile further north.

Remember, this is an old color slide that I scanned for the blog.