Thank you very much for posting the photo of the building’s facade. The blue boxes mark the windows that were installed later (they were three-panel windows). I don’t know exactly when the renovation took place, but the photo is dated 1959.
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I never really thought about how important E 42nd St was at that time.
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Awesome set!!!
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Reminds me Mafia 2, love it.
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You can see the antenna on the North Tower is under construction here, in 1979
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Where was Bryant’s Opera House located?
I couldn’t find anything; the stereocard dates from the 1870s or early 1880s.
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Other Names
- The Trocadero (1896)
- Koster & Bial’s Music Hall (1879)
- St. James Theatre (1878)
- Theatre Francaise (1877)
- Darling’s Opera House (1875)
- 23rd Street Theatre (1875)
- Bryant’s Opera House (1870)
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Thank you very much for the link; I found two houses on 23rd Street.
Booth’s Theatre 23rd Street corner 6th Ave.
Chelsea Opera House (The RKO) 23rd Street corner 8th Ave.
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23rd St was the Broadway of its time, following 14th St earlier and Bowery before that.
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So much has changed -
Yes, New York changed dramatically between 1960 and 1975. In the early 1960s, the skyline was still dominated by the distinctive spires of the Singer Building, the Woolworth Building, and other architectural skyscrapers from the 1930s. By 1975, the Twin Towers stood alongside countless modern glass boxes that were built without any regard for the street or the skyline.
And today, when we look back in 10 or 15 years at the Manhattan we see today, what will we think?
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