Early Times Square gifts-over-100 The Flatiron Building was one

The Flatiron Building was one of the tallest building in the world when it was completed in 1902 and heralded the Golden Era of skyscrapers in New York City

Aside from giving riders a great view of the Fair

Carnegie Hall was home to the first American performance of Berlioz's "Te Deum" as well as Tchaikovsky's American debut

But the building had 55 additional feet below the street for its pressroom

enough to put him in the Hall of Fame and make him baseball's legendary home run machine

Early Times Square gifts-over-100 The Flatiron Building was oneTrolleys, horse drawn wagons, men with straw hats and women in long dresses are part of the street scene of 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue, looking northwest, in Times Square in 1908. Inside Hammerstein's Theatre at the corner, Gertrude Hoffman was raising eyebrows at night with her suggestive dance style in "The Vision of Salome." At many theatre houses around the country, her scant costumes led to her arrest by local police. Several curtain calls,