Lexington Avenue and East 29th Street, 1924
View looking north on Lexington Avenue from 29th Street. In the nineteenth century,
Lexington Avenue was a transitional street between the tenements located east
of Third Avenue and the upper class neighborhoods around Madison Square and
Gramercy Park. Lined with single family row houses, the street had a decidedly
middle class air. Lexington Avenue has retained a fair degree of architectural
integrity and many of these row houses remain. The buildings have been altered
by exterior storefronts and interior conversions from single family homes to
apartments.
