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View of Broadway and West 66th Street – Douglas Leigh Archive – Hotel Dauphin, Kitchenettes – NYC

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CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE – View of Hotel Dauphin and former configuration of intersections in front of Lincoln Center – Douglas Leigh Archive

The Dauphin Hotel was an establishment located on the west block front of Broadway between 66th Street and 67th Street. In 1958 the ballroom of the hotel was behind Julia Murphy’s Bar. The Dauphin Hotel was demolished as part of the excavation for the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. By 1964, the site was taken by the Empire Mutual Insurance Group building. This edifice also occupied the space where the Marie Antoinette Hotel previously stood. – Wikipedia

Teacher’s Too Revealed After McDonalds Closure – Bruce Rosen

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Upper West Side Delicatessen Sign Exposed! – Uptown Correspondent, Iman R. Abdulfattah

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A grocery store on Broadway between 103rd and 104th street in front of a subway entrance closed recently, and construction workers stripped off the sign in front to reveal the name of a bygone delicatessen and sandwich shop. At first glance, it looks like it was called “Bruder’s,” but the B is actually from another sign underneath the sandwich shop’s. The “ders” or “des” appears to be intact, but the first letter in the name is tough to decipher. An H? A U? – West Side Rag

Hotel Bonta-Narragansett – UWS – NYC

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

The Hotel Narragansett opened ca. 1902 at this location on Broadway between 93rd and 94th Streets. 1913-14 advertisements in the New York Herald referred to the Hotel as the Bonta-Narragansett (Arthur Knox Bonta, 1861?-1919, proprietor): “Handsomely Furnished Suites of One or More Rooms, with Bath.”  – Walter Grutchfield

Arthur Knox Bonta – 8 AUG 1860 – 25 DEC 1919 – Three Systems

Fall River Line Journal, Volumes 34-35 – CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE – Google Books

Hotel Lincoln Square – Upper West Side, NYC

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Borchard Building Management – ULster – 8 Phone Exchange – UWS, NYC

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© Vincenzo Aiosa

Featured Fade – The Place – West 82nd & Broadway – Lou Pizzitola

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Any clues as to what was this business? My guess is a hair salon.

Livingston Automobile Radiators – After the Scaffolding Comes Down – Upper West Side, NYC

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Amsterdam & West 74th Street © Vincenzo Aiosa

© Vincenzo Aiosa

© Vincenzo Aiosa

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Livingston Automobile Radiators – Motor Corp – On a Tip from Tantleff – West 75th & Broadway, NYC

© Nathan Tantleff

© Nathan Tantleff

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Thanks Nathan!