Broadway and 6th Avenue, 33rd St. Elevated R.R. Station - 19th Century

Junction of Broadway and Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas), with the West 33rd Street Elevated R.R. Station, looking south. Wood engraving, hand colored by Charles Magnus & Company. Depicted cityscape between 1874 and 1890. Source: 100 Views of New York and Environs, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The old Union Dime Savings Institution building, erected in 1874 at the south side of 32nd Street, junction on Broadway and 6th Avenue. The Union Dime Savings Bank, chartered in 1859, sold the property in 1906 to City Investing Company. The Bank moved to a site opposite Bryant Park, on 6th Avenue and Fortieth Street. The building was demolished in 1929.

The square in the foreground, opposite the Union Dime building, was named Herald Square, after 1895. The old Broadway Tabernacle at 34th Street, dedicated in 1859, is on the left.

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Broadway, west side, 31st to 34th St. 1899.

Illustration from the same source of the illustration above.

Opposite view of the illustration above.

The opposite view of the illustration above.

The opposite view of the illustration above, from 34th St.

The Grand Hotel at West 31st Street

Broadway and 6th Avenue, 33rd St. Elevated R.R. Station - 19th Century

Union Dime Savings Institution

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