New York Metropolitan Vintage Photo/Video Collection

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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https://www.instagram.com/usa_vintage/p/DXmAeWviNFX/

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I never really thought about how important E 42nd St was at that time.

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The Prentice mansion on Grace Court

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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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