Comments on: Where & When: Game 69

By: Chyll Will

Chyll Will — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 00:37:23 +0000

[10] tee-hee. Now we wait on the Far East contingency to chime in. The building everyone’s talking about is actually on the far side of this block; technically not the corner we see in the forefront, but still part of the pic. The business is located in the building in the middle. Can you get a fix on the address; it might help.

By: RIYank

RIYank — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 21:58:46 +0000

There was already a Brunswick Hotel on the site. (You can see it in the picture!) The Grand Brunswick, I guess, is what the sign is touting as to-be-constructed.

Will, if I have the bonus, then you did a nice job of beating around the bush.

Now I kind of hate myself.

By: Chyll Will

Chyll Will — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 21:43:04 +0000

Touché… well played, Mauer.

By: rbj

rbj — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 19:31:13 +0000

Museum of Mathematics?

By: Chyll Will

Chyll Will — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 18:47:05 +0000

So nobody’s gonna take a shot at the bonus here? Sheesh…

By: Chyll Will

Chyll Will — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 18:46:07 +0000

[5] You’re not quite there, Doc, but you’re really warm… Try looking the other way >;)

By: rbj

rbj — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 18:05:54 +0000

But then this site has an 1890 date for a Brunswick Hotel:
http://home.comcast.net/~m.chitty/newyorkmap.htm

New York Nov. 19, 1890 Yesterday went to the Brunswick Hotel to hear Mrs. Kendal address the Goethe Society. Subject “The Stage”. Heard nothing new but the subject was nicely put together, and very clearly delivered by Mrs. Kendall who has a very sweet toned voice.

The Brunswick Hotel was on Madison Square at Fifth Avenue and 25th Street “much favored by English tourists and is patronized also by the wealthy young men about town”. [Kings NYC?]

By: rbj

rbj — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 16:51:59 +0000

It is near the Admiral David Farragut Monument, according to the Grand Madison’s website.

By: rbj

rbj — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 16:50:57 +0000

Ok, Brunswick hotel got me to this:
The Brunswick Hotel was on Madison Square at Fifth Avenue and 25th Street
Which got me to the NoMad wikipedia page with this unhelpful line:
The Brunswick, at East 26th Street and Fifth Avenue, was the hotel favored by the horsey set

So it’s East 26th & Fifth Ave.

Which gets me to the Grand Madison, which wikipedia says was built in 1906. This is before that, so it is probably 1905.

By: rbj

rbj — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 16:30:07 +0000

The sign also says 100 Broadway

By: rbj

rbj — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 16:23:42 +0000

OK, so it’s before the Hotel Brunswick. Which is 1236 Madison Avenue.