Steinway Hall (no relation)

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This is the original one on 14th Street (no, not Steinway Street or Steinway Village). It and the later halls served as "concert halls, showrooms and sales departments for Steinway & Sons pianos" and became "the center of New York's cultural life."

The crowd is there to buy tickets to a reading by Dickens in 1867. 

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