Broadway between 41st and 42nd Streets

Buildings on west side of Broadway, between 41st Street, on the left and 42nd Street, on the right. The biggest building in this photo is the old 7-story Rossmore Hotel, which had opened in 1876. The Café de L'Opéra is in its ground floor. The old Metropole Hotel on the south side of 42nd St. (right) was demolished in 1909 to make way for the projected Heidelberg Building, but never built. A modest building was erected instead (see an aerial photo in 1930). Times Square is to the right and the area was rapidly transforming.

Photograph published in 1910 in the book Both Sides of Broadway from Bowling Green to Central Park. Original title: Broadway, between 41st and 42dd streets. The Commercial Trust Co. [building on the left] - Morris Goldstone, Jewelry - Samuel Jacobs, Tailor - Crosby Co., Jewelry - Café de L'Opera - The construction of the Heidelberg Building being erected at the corner of 42nd Street. Photo possibly taken in the late 1909.