Results for "1970s"

Search 1970s 31 Results
Sort
Relevance Newest Oldest
Authors
Matt Coneybeare 31
Boroughs
Manhattan 31
Neighborhoods
Upper West Side 31 Midtown 8 Central Park 6 Times Square 1 Hells Kitchen 1 Upper East Side 1 Lower East Side 1 Chelsea 1
June 21, 1954: Plans to build on Columbus Circle required demolition of 1819 Broadway, a tower of offices that would be “the tallest building ever to come down anywhere in the world,” according to H. B. Mack, president of Wreckers and Excavators Inc. The demolition, which displaced pigeons and others, was to make space for the New York Coliseum, a convention center that stood there from 1956 till 2000, when the Time Warner Center moved in.
New York Times' Lively Morgue Posts a Vintage Aerial Photograph of a Razed Columbus Circle
on
at on

The Lively Morgue is a daily photo blog from the New York Times in which an original photo from the newspaper's archives is reposted along with tidbits of information gleaned from the…