ROSELAND. 239 W. 52nd Street. Roseland is the sole survivor of the many dance halls and tango palaces that have lined Broadway since the turn of the 20th century. Roseland, with its restaurants, bars, and huge dance floor, was by far the biggest of the halls.
Roseland was the idea of Louis Brecker , who began his entrepreneurial career in Philadelphia, home of the original Roseland. Brecker and his fiancee, Dorothy Faggen , were students at the University of Pennsylvania...