Here are a few pictures from a midtown walk around St. Patrick's Cathedral, Rockefeller Center and The New York Library. My grandfather, Thomas E. Pryor, was born in 820 Third Avenue at 50th Street in 1900 before the Third Avenue rail was electrified in 1905. His family lived on the third floor in an apartment that faced the roaring smokey steam engines that chugged by like the one in the black & white picture here. Also below is a 1939 NYC tax record photograph of the west side of Third Avenue between 50th & 51st Streets. 820 is the second building off the left side of the picture. My grandfather was baptized in St. Patrick's Cathedral on December 23, 1900, a copy of the certificate is below.
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