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At the corner of Hatton Garden was the old family department store of Gamages. Until 1992, the London Weather Centre was located in the street. The Prudential insurance company relocated in 2002. The Daily Mirror offices used to be directly opposite it, but the site is now occupied by Sainsbury's head office.
Located close to the Holborn Bar city boundary of the City of London Holborn Bars was built on the site of the former Furnival's Inn building of the Inns of Chancery.It was designed in Gothic Revival style for the Prudential Assurance Society by architects initially Alfred Waterhouse and his son Paul Waterhouse who became a partner in his father's firm from 1891, and built by Holland, Hannen ...
The Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel is a 501 ft (153 m), 51-story hotel located near Times Square in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It faces 7th Avenue, 52nd Street, and 53rd Street. It is one of the world's 100 tallest hotels, and one of the tallest hotels in New York City. The hotel was opened in 1962 as the Americana of New York.
The Knickerbocker Hotel is on the southeastern corner of Broadway and 42nd Street, at the south end of Times Square, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. [1] [3] [4] It contains the alternate addresses 1462–1470 Broadway, [1] [4] [5] 6 Times Square, [5] and 142 West 42nd Street, [6] with a small annex extending south to 143 ...
[14] [16] The New York Times compared the hotel to a "giant jukebox". [16] The hotel was designed to comply with city regulations that required deep setbacks at the base, as well as large illuminated signs. [7] Accordingly, the hotel rooms are deeply set back from Broadway, and the first seven stories were initially planned to contain curving ...
Hotel Astor was a hotel on Times Square in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, United States. Built in 1905 and expanded in 1909–1910 for the Astor family , the hotel occupied a site bounded by Broadway , Shubert Alley , and 44th and 45th Streets. [ 1 ]
The hotel was soon acquired by Manger Hotels, who changed the name to the Times Square Hotel in 1923, with one floor reserved for women. In 1924, four room options, priced between $2 and $8 per night, were available at the hotel; room with running water, connecting bath, private bath or double room with bath.
Times Square Stores (also called TSS and TSS Seedman's) was an American department store chain based in New York City that operated from 1929 to 1989. By the late 1980s the chain operated 12 stores in New York and 6 in Puerto Rico , and an off-price ladies' apparel chain, Finders Keepers , which had 15 locations. [ 1 ]