Midtown Manhattan, NYC, New York by Berenice Abbott The contrast between the old and new is striking here — one of points Abbott made over and over in her photographs. Most of these old brick and stone buildings have been supplanted by skyscrapers. From “Changing New York: Photographs by Berenice Abbott, 1935-1938,” available through the NY Public Library Digital Gallery. (See also the book of the same name.) Detail of this photo: 48th Street, looking Northwest from a point be