This photograph shows the construction of the Vanderbilt Hotel. It portrays the constantly-changing New York landscape. There is a clear difference between the average, 4-story apartments along Park Avenue and the structure that will soon be the hotel. This photograph is important because it represents the increase in height of our city’s skyline over time. Walking down this same avenue today, that building does not look as big as it does here. Every other building in the vicinity is the same height, and one would never think that 4 Park Avenue once stood out among the rest.