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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