Early Times Square Size:11" x 14" on-the-scene coverage and incisive journalism

on-the-scene coverage and incisive journalism to the public

in the words of the historian Mark Kurlansky

Some Early Adverse Effects Wear Off

as The Times noted

Early Times Square Size:11" x 14" on-the-scene coverage and incisive journalismTrolleys, 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,