Photograph from Norman Thomas and W. W. Rock 



madison square;: the: flatiron building and fifth avenue: building 



Where once stood the Fifth Avenue Hotel, with its "Amen Corner," now towers a great 

 office structure, the Fifth Avenue Building, and the Hoffman House, where the Democrats 

 of the country used to foregather, is only a memory. Where society once reigned supreme, 

 now there are cloak and suit lofts, and Madison Square is little more than a way station twixt 

 the uptown and downtown business districts. 



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