From My Window at the Shelton, North,

1931

In the early 1930s, Stieglitz made some ninety views of Manhattan from the windows of his gallery, An American Place, and his apartment, located in new high-rise towers on the East Side. The ongoing construction boom he highlighted<br>here and throughout the series both impressed and upset Stieglitz. The artist looked out his gallery window one day and remarked that he had known the Upper East Side of Manhattan for more than half a century. “When we moved<br>here, I a boy, it was all rocks and bare places. My father said it would one day become the center of New York. . . . Some day, I wonder if the last tree on Manhattan Island will not feel as I do. They have displaced trees with all that wonder—or<br>so-called wonder.”