West 42nd Street, between Broadway and 6th Avenue - about 1909
Street scene and buildings on the south side of West Forty-second Street, Manhattan, between Broadway and Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas), with elevated railway.
This is a fragment of photo depicting Knickerbocker Hotel (on the right). Photo by Detroit Publishing Co. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. This photo was possibly in October 1909 at time of Hudson-Fulton celebration. The hotel displays the flag specially made for the celebration, with letters HF. Henry Hudson discovered Hudson River and Robert Fulton made the first successful commercial application of the paddle steamer.
Office of the New York Edison Co. and the headquarters of the C.C. Shayne Fur Company, at 124 and 126 West 42nd Street, are seen. The Shayne's Emporium opened in 1893 and it was the largest retail fur establishment in the United States. Christopher Columbus Shayne was the owner.
The 14-story Knickerbocker Hotel opened in 1906, designed in the Beaux-Arts, on the southeast corner of Broadway and 42nd Street is on the right.
Junction of Broadway and 6th Avenue.
West 42nd Street, between Broadway and 6th Avenue - about 1909
An earlier photo of the same buildings.
Photo above is part of this one.
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