Herald Sq looking north with excavation for IRT visible ca. 1901-92.

Herald Square (New York, N.Y.)

Railroads, Elevated--New York (State)--New York.

IRT Broadway Line Viaduct (New York, N.Y.)

Broadway Tabernacle (New York, N.Y.)

Building sites--New York (State)--New York.

This is a long view of Herald Square looking from south to north. Elevated subway tracks and the Broadway Tabernacle are visible on the right and excavation for the IRT on the left. Macy's is not yet in evidence but may be under construction. There is signage announcing that Saks & Co. is to be built on the site. There are billboards and many theatre posters visible.

Seymour B. Durst Old York Library.

City University of New York. Graduate School and University Center, Mina Rees Library.

M.G. Cunniff and Arthur Goodrich, "The Rebuilding of New York," in The New New York.

ca. 1901-1902

Arthur Hewitt

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Photographs

Sixth Avenue and 34th Street

Sixth Avenue at 32nd Street, now the site of the Gimbel Store.

Gimbel Brothers.

Merchants--New York (State)--New York.

Storefronts--New York (State)--New York.

Thirty-second Street (New York, N.Y.)

Avenue of the Americas (New York, N.Y.)

A four story retail and residential building which was the future site of Gimbels Department store. Signage indicating that the storefront is occupied by a business named "McDonald's". On the roof is a billboard partially illegible which reads "Benedictine."

Seymour B. Durst Old York Library.

City University of New York. Graduate School and University Center, Mina Rees Library.

Henry Collins Brown, Valentine's Manual of the City of New York (New York: The Old Colony Press, 1917-1918), 298.

1917-1918

Unknown

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Prints

Corner of Sixth Avenue and 32nd Street

1329 to 1349 Broadway, between Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Streets. Lew Field's Theatre - United Cigar Store - The Gerald and Ethier Cafe - The Emerson Shoe - The Broadway Music Store - The Elite Diamond and Antique Shop - Mendelowitz Candy - Gophir Diamond Co. - Henry A. Richie & Co., Tailors - W.L. Douglas Shoe Co., cor. of Thirty-sixth Street.

Broadway (New York, N.Y.)

Billboards.

Streets--New York (State)--New York.

Streets--New York (State)--New York.

Exterior view of the Herald Square Theatre along with adjoining businesses and buildings as well as billboard advertisements, signs and pedestrians.

Seymour B. Durst Old York Library.

City University of New York. Graduate School and University Center, Mina Rees Library.

Rudolph M. De Leeuw, Both sides of Broadway, from Bowling green to Central park, New York City (New York: De Leeuw Riehl Pub. Co., 1910), 378.

1910

Unknown

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Prints

Broadway between 35th and 36th Streets