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Flatiron Building Where to See the Age
Overlooking Madison of Extravagance
Square, where Broadway, The Morgan Library (see pp160–61),
Fifth Avenue, and 23rd Street once home to the legendary
meet, the 21-story tower merchant
was one of the city’s first banker Pierpont
skyscrapers (1902). Triangle- Morgan, is a
shaped, it was dubbed the good place
Flatiron Building (see p123). to experience
the city’s
opulent past.
Underlying steel The Museum
structure of the City of
New York also
Elaborate limestone has period
facade rooms (p195).
Only 6 ft (185 cm)
wide at the apex
of triangle
Mark Twain’s Birthday
Twain (1835–1910),
whose 1873 novel
The Gilded Age
portrayed the
decadent lifestyle
of New Yorkers,
celebrated
his birthday
at Delmonico’s.
Fashion City
Lord & Taylor
built a new store
on Broadway’s
Ladies’ Mile; 6th
Avenue between
14th and 23rd
streets was known
as Fashion Row.

Palatial Living
Fifth Avenue was lined with glorious
mansions. When it was built in 1882,
W. K. Vanderbilt’s Italianate palace at
660 Fifth Avenue, was one of the
farthest north.

1897 Waldorf-Astoria 1898 Five 1913 Woolworth Building is world’s
Hotel opens – the largest boroughs merge tallest; new Grand Central Terminal
hotel in the world to form world’s opens; Harlem’s Apollo Theater opens
second-largest city
1890 1895 1900 1905 1910
1891 Carnegie 1900 Mayor Robert Van Wyck 1911 Triangle
Hall opens breaks ground for city’s first Shirtwaist Factory
subway with silver shovel 1903 Lyceum fire kills 146
Theater opens – sweatshop workers;
1901 Macy’s opens oldest Broadway New York Public
Broadway department store house still in use Library completed

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