Broadway, West Side. 23rd to 25th St. - 1899
Image depicts buildings on the west side of Broadway, old New York City, in front of Madison Square Park, from 23rd to 25th St. (also called Madison Square West). The 24th Street is in the middle. All buildings shown were hotels with stores in the ground floor .Source: A Pictorial Description of Broadway, published in 1899 by Mail & Express Company, publisher of the Evening Mail (New York Public Library).
The old Fifth Avenue Hotel was a luxury hotel that operated from 1859 to 1908. It had an entire block of frontage between 23rd Street and 24th Street. Albemarle Hotel and Hoffman House were demolished in 1915. Worth Square is to the right.
57 - Broadway, 5th Ave. Madison Square - 1899.
The Fifth Avenue Building was erected on the site of the old Fifth Avenue Hotel.
55 - Broadway, east side, 20th to 23rd 1899.
58 - Broadway, west side, 25th to 27th St. 1899.
59 - Broadway, east side, 25th to 27th St. - 1899.
Hoffman House Annex
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Albemarle Hotel
54 - Broadway, west side, 20th to 23rd St. - 1899.
Hoffman House
Fifth Avenue Hotel
Broadway, West Side. 23rd to 25th St. - 1899
