New York Times Building - 1905
The Times Building (now One Times Square), looking north from Broadway and 42nd Street. Photo copyright 1906 by Irving Underhill. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The Times Building was completed in 1904, the same year of the Times Subway Station, which entrance in seen below. Still in the same year, the old Long Acre Square was renamed Times Square. The summit of the tower of the Times Building was 357 feet 10¾ inches above the curb.
The newspaper headquarters moved, from the old Times Building on Park Row, to this building in January 1905 and left it in 1913, when it moved into the Times Annex at 229 West 43rd Street. In the 1960s its façade was entirely reclad and then served as a kiosk for billboards and video screens.
The old Metropole Hotel is on the left. Hotel Astor is on the right, between 44th Street and 45th St. Several skyscrapers, theaters and billboards took over this area in the following decades. More: Times Square looking north ►
New York Times Building - 1905
The same photograph in a vintage postcard by Illustrated Post Card Co. New York Germany.
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