Panorama from the Times Building, New York 1905

Photographed April 11, 1905.
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
Location: Broadway and 7th Avenue, between 42nd and 43rd Streets
Camera: Wallace McCutcheon

The view is from the top of 1 Times Square Originally named Longacre Square, it was renamed Times Square on April 8, 1904, by proclamation of Mayor George B. McClellan, Jr. at the urging of Adolph Ochs, owner and publisher of the New York Times. It is also known as 1475 Broadway, New York Times Building and New York Times Tower. The north end lof the area [2:00] later became Duffy Square. The Times Building is a 25 story, 365 foot (110.6 m) high skyscraper at 42nd and Broadway in Times Square. It was the second tallest building in the world when it opened.
The camera pans to the north over the tops of the buildings from Bryant Park, south of 42nd Street (behind the New York Public Library) [0:39] up 6th Avenue to the Hippodrome Theatre, between 43rd & 44th Streets [1:04]. A marquee on the theater reads 'A Yankee Circus On Mars.' The camera continues to rotate toward 44th and 45th Streets between 6th and 7th Avenues, until coming to rest looking directly north up Times Square to 46th Street, where Broadway (left) and 7th Avenue (right) diverge again.
The Hippodrome Theatre [1:04] also opened in 1905 and was, at the time, New York's largest indoor stage. It was built and owned by Frederick Thompson, the man responsible for creating Luna Park in Coney Island. The Hippodrome closed in 1939.

'Chimmy and Maggie at the Hippodrome' - Ada Jones & Len Spencer (Edison Gold Moulded cylinder No. 9079, May 1905): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stkXMQLN1kk&list=PL9FC332BF2C7A1155&in...

Recommended reading:
AIA Guide to New York City
- Norval White and Elliot Willensky
(The most essential reference guide to New York's architecture)
The Devils Playground / A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square - James Traub
The Kid of Coney Island / Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements - Woody Register

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[uboob67]

At 1:04 is the old Madison Square Garden! It lasted in that location till ???

[TigerRocket]

@uboob67 That's the Hippodrome not the Garden. See notes for details. The Garden was located at Madison Avenue and 26th Street.

[uboob67]

You know, that's what I get for staying up so late... I stand corrected--  I guess I should have realized that knowing it was not elbowed up near Times Square anyway!!

[kz1000ps]

at 0:39 you can see the Public Library in Bryant Park under construction, and at around 1:04 is the old Hippodrome, allegedly the largest theatre in the world at the time.

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