Knickerbocker Hotel, Broadway, New York City

Knickerbocker Hotel, Broadway and 42nd Street, New York City, September 6, 1914. Photographed for the Success Postal Card Company (from Times Building). World War I had started weeks before. The Tribune advertised war news in outdoor on the right. Source: William D. Hassler photograph collection, New-York Historical Society.

The 14-story Knickerbocker Hotel in Beaux-Arts style, on the southeast corner of Broadway and 42nd Street, was completed in 1906. In 1911 its portico on the sidewalk level of 42nd Street was removed.

The 9-story Hotel Continental (former Hotel Vendome) is on the southeast corner of West 41st Street and Broadway (right). the 7-story Hotel Calvert (former Stuart House is on the northeast corner of W 41st Street. The headquarters of the C.C. Shayne Fur Company is seen at 124 and 126 West 42nd Street, on the left.