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Broadway Central Hotel

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Broadway Central Hotel
Broadway Central Hotel This photo was taken a few feet from the entrance of Broadway Central Hotel by the 1940s tax department in New York. Source: New York City Municipal Archives Date: 1939-19413

"At No. 673 stands the Broadway Central, built in the 1870s to be 'America's most palatial hotel.' The National Baseball League was organized here in 1876. In this hotel, Edward S. Stroke shot and killed James Fisk, president of Erie Railroad, in January 1872, in a quarrel over Josie Mansfield, access (NYC Guide, pp. 137)."

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Broadway Central Hotel
Broadway Central Hotel This photo was taken a few feet from the entrance of Broadway Central Hotel by the 1940s tax department in New York. Source: New York City Municipal Archives Date: 1939-19413
NYPL Atlas of NYC: Broadway Central Hotel
NYPL Atlas of NYC: Broadway Central Hotel Broadway Central Hotel is located top rightmost block of the map. Located on block 532, the hotel occupied a major portion of the area. This map gives a better idea of the size and shape of the hotel as well as what occupied the surrounding area. Source: From The New York Public Library Date: 1925

Location

673 Broadway

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Related Resources

  1. The WPA Guide to New York City : The Federal Writers’ Project Guide to 1930s New York. Pantheon Books, 1982.

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