¶ New York City
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“bomb hit the front page, this city had become the first Einsteinian reality. Its romance is its living manifestation of history continually in the making. Its streets and districts gradually grow, swell, transform, and disappear altogether. In the 'gay ‘90s’ New York’s great exposition and sports building on Madison Square was known as Madison Square Garden. In 1924, the owners of that building built a new modern Madison Square Garden 1/2 miles north of Madison Square on Eighth Avenue. New York’s Bowery, now the deadbeat’s lingering threshold to death, was once the most splendid of growing New York’s districts and boasted its Bowery Savings Bank. The Bowery Savings Bank now has its main office five miles north of the Bowery on East 42nd Street. The Madison Avenue of the 'gay ‘90s’ meant the area between Madison Square and 42nd Street, dominated by the J.P. Morgan residence at 38th and Madison. Madison Avenue of the first half of the 20th century referred to shopping section from 42nd Street to 72nd Street, dominated at its base by Brooks Brothers, the Biltmore Hotel, and the Roosevelt Hotel. So attractive did the Madison Avenue vantage appear to so many corporate newcomers that they, in effect, have pulled down all the old”
¶ Citations
- #AVE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CITY, N.Y. Guidebook. 1964
