The greatest street in the world - the story of Broadway, old and new, from the Bowling Green to Albany (1911) (14775771402)

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Title: The greatest street in the world : the story of Broadway, old and new, from the Bowling Green to Albany
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Jenkins, Stephen, 1857-1913
Subjects: Streets--New York (State)--New York. Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)
Publisher: New York London : G. P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Rutgers University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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?- Miners Theatre and was burned out January2, 1891; it is now Keith and Proctors. The other theatreon Twenty-ninth Street was originally Weber and Fields,where those amusing comedians gave very funny bur-lesques of the passing shows. After the dissolution oftheir partnership, it became Jo Webers Theatre. The Union Dime Savings Bank stood on Thirty-second Street, facing Greeley Square, from 1876 toFebruary, 1910. From in front of the bank the oldBloomingdale stages had their point of departure beforegoing out of existence altogether. About fifty years ago,the property belonged to Richard F. Carman, who asked$90,000 for the plot, but took $87,500, remarking to hisagent with a chuckle of satisfaction as he closed the bar-gain: I guess that fellow s stuck. Such was the opinionof many who considered the price beyond all reason forproperty in the neighborhood of Thirty-fourth Street;
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253 254 The Worlds Greatest Street yet, in 1874, when the savings bank took title, it paid$275,000, or about seventy dollars a square foot for ap-proximately four thousand square feet. At the sale inOctober, 1906, the bank received about two hundred andfifty dollars a square foot; and the purchaser sold to anEnglish syndicate in June, 1909, at a price which is statedto have been in the neighborhood of three hundred andseventy-five dollars a square foot, a value for city propertyonly exceeded so far by the plot at the comer of Broadwayand Wall vStreet. This will give some idea of the in-crement in land values in this vicinity within half acentury. Broadway crosses Sixth Avenue at Thirty-fourthStreet; and from Thirty-second to Thirty-fifth, there is anopen space, except for two triangular parks. The lowerone contains a statue of Horace Greeley and is calledGreeley Square. The upper space contains a statueof William E. Dodge, one of New Yorks famous mer-chants, but since it stands in fro