The Imperial's Last View: Manhattan's Forgotten Broadway Frame Style:Canvas Wrap and lantern-room sightline was drawn

and lantern-room sightline was drawn against the certainty that the shoals would try to take it back

Fits a home bar

dark-walled reading rooms

cocktail enthusiasts

A streetscape preserved at the hour the old hotel surrendered its windows to the wreckers

The Imperial's Last View: Manhattan's Forgotten Broadway Frame Style:Canvas Wrap and lantern-room sightline was drawnThe Imperial's Last View: Manhattan's Forgotten Broadway looks down a vanished stretch of the Great White Way, where cast iron facades and gaslit marquees crowded a thoroughfare since rewritten by demolition crews. A streetscape preserved at the hour the old hotel surrendered its windows to the wreckers. About the Source Bella Frye sources NYC artifacts from American photographic archives, postcard collections, and period broadsides the press