View looking north on the East River from Midtown Manhattan, with the Queensboro Bridge and Roosevelt Island in the background. Photo taken from East River Waterfront Esplanade.‹›
United Nations Secretariat Building

Le Corbusier, Oscar Niemeyer

Exterior · New York City, United States · 1951

Photo: Arild Vågen · 2017-08-16 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Original 5931×3707

View looking north on the East River from Midtown Manhattan, with the Queensboro Bridge and Roosevelt Island in the background. Photo taken from East River Waterfront Esplanade.

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