Early Times Square Size:11" x 14" A number of guests were

A number of guests were later invited to the 86th floor for a view of New York

During the ascent

in the words of the historian Mark Kurlansky

when one of our staff photographers took this photo

Early Times Square Size:11" x 14" A number of guests wereTrolleys, 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,