Imagining Broadway on the Upper West Side as a strictly residential, rather than commercialized, corridor isn't easy nowadays, but that was the original vision for the neighborhood's resplendent buildings such as the Secession-style Hotel Belleclaire and the Beaux-Arts Dorilton. The 1904 Broadway subway drove crowds to the area, notes the Times, marking the end of the age of innocence. "... the age of commerce had arrived." [NYT]
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