Upper West Side, Broadway and West 77th Street - 1908
The Apthorpe, a 12-story block square apartment house (2171-2177 Broadway), between 78th and 79th streets, was built from 1906 to 1908. Photograph by George L. Balgue dated October 1908. Source: Photographic views of New York City, from the collections of the New York Public Library.
The first subway line of Manhattan opened in 1904 with a station at Broadway and 79th Street.
The Apthorpe was designed by Clinton & Russell in the Italian Renaissance Revival style. It opened in 1908 as a residential hotel by William Waldorf Astor, who named it after the Apthorp Farm, of which the site used to be part. The Apthorp is a New York City designated landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Broadway, west side, north from and including West 77th Street, to 79th Street, partially showing the Hotel Belleclaire on the southwest corner of West 77th Street (extreme left).
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The Ansonia Apartment Hotel on Broadway, between West 73rd St. and West 74th St.
Broadway and 77th St.
Upper West Side, Broadway and West 77th Street - 1908
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