RECTOR’S RESTAURANT
. Broadway, between 43th and 44th Streets. Rector’s was the most lavish and most important of the lobster palaces
that dotted Broadway at the turn of the 20th century. When its doors were opened on September 23, 1899, a new era of fine dining was born in what was then Longacre Square.
Charles Rector’s father was a short-order cook at the Frontier House in Lewiston, New York. He moved to Rockport, a location near the Erie Canal...