Advertisement for the Hotel Knickerbocker, c.1901
In the 1870s, Charles Braaf opened the Hotel Knickerbocker in a tenement building
at the southwest corner of Third Avenue and 25th Street. The hotel included
a bar and restaurant at street level and advertised itself to horse buyers
doing business at the Bull’s Head Market. The building still stands directly
behind this exhibit and still serves as a hotel at the time the exhibit was
installed
in 2004.
