#paramount building

Crisp and uncommon view of Times Square from above West 42nd Street looking East. Notable buildings in view include the pyramid-like globe-topped Paramount Building on the Left, adorned with a clock. Directly in front of that is the New York Times Annex, also topped with a pyramid and a sign that beams out the name of its builder. Even closer to the foreground from that is the blocky Hotel Times Square at 43rd Street and 8th Avenue. To the right of the Paramount Building is the Times Tower from which Times Square derives its name. Today famous for the signs which cover it and for being the home of the annual New Year’s Eve Ball Drop. To the right of the Times Tower in the distance is the Gothic Revival Bush Terminal building. In front of that is the white terra cotta faced Candler Building, built by Asa Candler of Coca-Cola fame. On 42nd Street itself the marquees for the Loew’s American Theatre and Wallack’s are barely visible. The lack of the Chrysler Building and presence of the Paramount places the photo between 1927 and 1930.

On February 26, 2009, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that traffic lanes along Broadway from 42nd Street to 47th Street would be de-mapped starting Memorial Day 2009 and transformed into pedestrian plazas as a trial until at least the end of the year. The same was done in Herald Square from 33rd to 35th Street.

Source: Chamberlain, Samuel. "Rockefeller Center. A photographic narrative". New York. Hastings House. 1951.

New York, Times Square and Paramount Building

New York, New York