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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...

New York circa 1910. Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street.

New York City circa 1905. The Elevated, Eighth Avenue and W. 110th Street.

Fall 1900. New York City. Metropolitan Opera House, Broadway and 39th Street.

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.

In this video called "New York City Leftover" we will look at some ruins possibly remaining from a previous civilization in New York City.

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.

Join me as we examine the construction of New York City's underground subways.