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Broadway & 39th Street, Manhattan

35 historical photos taken here between 1899 and 1968, oldest first.

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  • Broadway, West Side. 40th to 43rd St., 1899

    Broadway, West Side. 40th to 43rd St.

    1899

  • Broadway, East Side. 40th to 43rd St., 1899

    Broadway, East Side. 40th to 43rd St.

    1899

  • Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street, 1900

    Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street

    1900

  • Manhattan: Broadway - 40th Street (West), 1902

    Manhattan: Broadway - 40th Street (West)

    1902

  • Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street, 1904

    Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street

    1904

  • Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street, 1904

    Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street

    1904

  • Manhattan: Broadway - 40th Street (West), 1905

    Manhattan: Broadway - 40th Street (West)

    1905

  • Manhattan: Broadway - 40th Street (West), 1918

    Manhattan: Broadway - 40th Street (West)

    1918

  • Manhattan: Broadway - 40th Street (West), 1918

    Manhattan: Broadway - 40th Street (West)

    1918

  • Manhattan: 39th Street - Broadway, 1928

    Manhattan: 39th Street - Broadway

    1928

  • Manhattan: Broadway - 40th Street, 1928

    Manhattan: Broadway - 40th Street

    1928

  • Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street, 1928

    Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street

    1928

  • Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street, 1928

    Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street

    1928

  • Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street, 1928

    Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street

    1928

  • Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street, 1929

    Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street

    1929

  • Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street, 1929

    Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street

    1929

  • Manhattan: Broadway - 40th Street (West), 1929

    Manhattan: Broadway - 40th Street (West)

    1929

  • Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street, 1929

    Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street

    1929

  • Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street, 1929

    Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street

    1929

  • Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street, 1930

    Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street

    1930

  • Manhattan: Broadway - 40th Street, 1930

    Manhattan: Broadway - 40th Street

    1930

  • Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street, 1930

    Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street

    1930

  • Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street, 1930

    Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street

    1930

  • Manhattan: Broadway - 40th Street, 1930

    Manhattan: Broadway - 40th Street

    1930

  • Manhattan: 39th Street - Broadway, 1930

    Manhattan: 39th Street - Broadway

    1930

  • Manhattan: 39th Street - Broadway, 1930

    Manhattan: 39th Street - Broadway

    1930

  • Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street, 1930

    Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street

    1930

  • Manhattan: Broadway - 40th Street, 1930

    Manhattan: Broadway - 40th Street

    1930

  • Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street, 1930

    Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street

    1930

  • Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street, 1930

    Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street

    1930

  • Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street

    1945

  • Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street

    1945

  • Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street

    1968

  • Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street

    Unknown

  • Broadway - West 39th Street

    Unknown

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Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street

Photo 34 of 35 at Broadway & 39th Street, Manhattan

Manhattan: Broadway - 39th Street

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From the CHANIN ORGANIZATION EXECUTIVE OFFICES: CHANIN BUILDING, 122 EAST 42ND STREET, NEW YORK TELEPHONE OXFORD 7-2200 Elbert Severance, Press Representative HOME TELEPHONE: BOULEVARD 3-1189 4/21/67 NEW YORK'S OLD METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE MAKES WAY FOR OFFICE TOWER Abandoned by the Metropolitan Opera Company, which gave its 1966-67 season in its new home in the Lincoln Center of Performing Arts, New York's old Metropolitan Opera House now is being demolished to make room for a 40-story office tower. The new building was designed by the Offices of Irwin S. Chanin, Architect, which over the years has given the city, and the Middle Atlantic Coast from New England to Virginia, great office buildings, urban apartment houses, hotels, legitimate and motion picture theatres, suburban residential communities, a great shopping center and commercial and industrial buildings. Erected in 1883, the old Metropolitan was the last survivor in a theatrical, opera and concert district, mostly located south of 42nd Street, which over the years has moved northward by a mile or more with its spine, in general, still Broadway, upon which the old Metropolitan faced. The new building, to contain about 1-million square feet of office and commercial space, will stand on land that still belongs to the Metropolitan Opera Association. It has been leased for a long term of years to the sponsors of the office building, who will pay a ground rent of about $500,000 a year. The ground rent will help meet the operating deficit of the opera company. Like all other opera companies and symphony orchestras, the opera company's boxoffice receipts, even at capacity, cannot meet operating costs. —s—

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