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New York, 1905. Hotel Netherland, Fifth Avenue and 59th Street. Hotel New Netherland (later Hotel Netherland) was located at the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 59th Street, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, in what is now the Upper East Side Historic District. It contained the...

Star Theatre (also known as Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre) is a 1901 short documentary film in which time-lapse photography is used to show the dismantling and demolition of New York City's Star Theatre over a period of about a month. Formerly called Wallack's Theatre, the Star...

The story involves a construction foreman who fires one of his crew for fighting, which leads the disgruntled employee to steal. He then cause the blame to be put on the foreman, who is finally exonerated when the thief is exposed. All of this conflict is woven in and around the actual...

New York circa 1905. St. Bartholomew's Church parish house and clinic, East 42nd Street.

New York circa 1908. Presbyterian Building, Fifth Avenue and West 20th Street.

New York circa 1912. National City Bank, Wall Street at William Street. Also the Atlantic Building, and a sliver of U.S. Trust.

New York circa 1890s. Street view, 21-23 Pearl Street.

New York circa 1910. View down Wall Street to Trinity Church.

Enormous boulders like this didn’t get in the way of nearby development a century or so ago, however. The Museum of the City of New York has this 1903 photo in its collection of a similar rock thwarting the building plans of a row of houses on Riverside Drive between 93rd and 94th Streets.

The NYS Historic Newspapers The NYS Historic Newspapers project provides free online access to a wide range of newspapers chosen to reflect New York's unique history. To search the entire collection, use the Search Tab. Or, click on a county to search or browse geographically. The New York...

Built in 1892-93 to a design by William H. Hume for William Waldorf Astor, its original lessee was Ferdinand P. Earle. The structure was 234 feet (71 m) in height with 17 stories, making it the "tallest hotel structure in the world". The structure was among the first steel-framed buildings in...

Sharing because these building were insane, especially the top portions: That original site was situated on Astor family properties along Fifth Avenue, opened in 1893, and designed by Henry J. Hardenbergh. It was demolished in 1929 to make way for the construction of the Empire State...

This building is still around. The Surrogate's Courthouse (originally the Hall of Records) is a Beaux Arts municipal building in the Civic Center neighborhood of lower Manhattan in New York City. Opened in 1907, it is located on the northwest corner of Chambers and Centre streets. The...

Some of the below pictures make me want to visit 1890-1910 New York, for it had to be a sight to behold. A few days ago this article was published. In the process there were so many pictures of other armories, that putting this article together was a no brainer. Some of these armories do look...