Fifth Avenue and Broadway, Intersection at Madison Square

Street Scene with cart traffic, pedestrians and buildings on Broadway (left) and Fifth Avenue, looking south from about 24th Street at Madison Square. Enlargements below. Photo by H.N. Tiemann & Co. Source: Photographic views from the collections of the New York Public Library.

The "Flatiron block", site of the Flatiron Building completed in 1902, is in the center. Madison Square is to the left and the old Fifth Avenue Hotel is on the right. Hotel Bartholdi at 956 Broadway (corner of 23rd Street) is on the extreme left. The Pach Brothers studio is behind Cumberland House. The Herald Branch office is on the right, on the southwest corner of 5th Avenue and 23rd St. The Cumberland House (with advertisements on the rear wall), old St. Germain Hotel (175 Fifth Avenue), is at 22nd Street.

A billboard on top of the commercial buildings in the center announces Agnes Herndon in "the Great Play" La Belle Marie or a Woman's Revenge, beginning Monday, June 9th, in the 14th Street Theatre. The year was 1890.

The spire of the South Dutch Reformed Church on Fifth Avenue, southwest corner of 21st Street, is seen on the right. The temple was demolished in the following months to make way for the Mohawk Building (160 Fifth Avenue), nine stories high, opened on May 1, 1892.

The Erie Railroad ticket office is at 957 Broadway.

The Venetian Gothic style building at 174 Fifth Avenue was home of the Dunlap & Co. Hatters. The store was previously in the ground floor of the Fifth Avenue Hotel since 1859 and replaced in 1871 by Knox the Hatter, when Dunlap moved. The building was demolished in the 1920s.