Long Acre Square, Pabst Hotel

Buildings on the block bounded by Broadway (left), 7th Avenue (right), West 42nd Street and West 43rd Street, in Midtown Manhattan, where Times Building was erected in 1904, looking from the northwest corner of Seventh Avenue and 43rd St. Photograph dated June 25, 1900. Source: Board of Transportation Interborough Rapid Transit Company, New York Transit Museum.

The Pabst Hotel was erected in 1899 and demolished by the early 1903. The present Times Square was then called Long Acre Square, which received asphalt pavement in 1897.