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

CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE – Douglas Leigh Archive

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

Hunter Baltimore Rye – Across from Lincoln Center – 2001

Hunter Baltimore Rye & The Mystery Man of 666 Broadway – Broadway Across from Lincoln Center – March, 2000 & April, 2002

Hunter Baltimore Rye - April 2002 - © Frank H. Jump

Hunter Baltimore Rye - April 2002 - © Frank H. Jump

Hunter Baltimore Rye - April 2002 - © Frank H. Jump

Hunter Baltimore Rye - April 2002 - © Frank H. Jump

Immediately when I saw this sign revealed, it solved a big mystery. I had shot a similar ad downtown between two buildings on Broadway and Bond (see map & image of man below).

David W. Dunlap (NYTimes) and I tried to decipher what product was being advertised for his December 10, 2000 NYTimes article: Olde York. Two years later, the mystery was solved when a building came down in the Lincoln Center area, east of Broadway.

666 Broadway & Bond - March 2000

666 Broadway & Bond - March 2000 - NY Times © Frank H. Jump

courtesy of David W. Dunlap, NY Times

courtesy of David W. Dunlap, NY Times

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