I genuinely wanted to solve this mystery myself. In the last couple of days, I even walked up and down Fifth Avenue and Park Avenue South looking for buildings that resembled the surrounding facades in the photograph. But a clever reader named Woodside Al had a hunch and landed the plane, and it turns out that I was way off. The location of the manhole that Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick and Chuck Wein were photographed posing in and around by noted shutterbug Burt Glinn in 1965 (click here to see the more famous black & white shot) is on the eastern end of East 58th Street, not foo far from the site of the iconic poster shot from Woody Allen’s “Manhattan."
In any case, for those of you who don't have the time run over to Sutton Place to pay homage, here's a simulated visit thanks to Google Maps.
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