Daytonian in Manhattan

In response to a devastating yellow fever epidemic, the Manhattan Bank Company purchased a rural plot of land, one acre square, from ...

No. 81, at left, is a near match to No. 79. On November 2, 1850 an announcement appeared in the New-York Daily Tribune : "Mr. H...

In August 1870 architect G. E. Knowlden filed plans for five narrow rowhouses to be built for developer Silas M. Stiles stretching sou...

photo by Beyond My Ken At around 6:10 on the evening of October 27, 1878 thieves broke into the Manhattan Savings Institution at Broa...

A year after erecting his striking 30-story World Tower Building , in 1914 fledgling developer Edward West Browning hired the same arc...

The church was flanked by a factory and a squalid tenement in June of 1930.  from the collection of the New York Public Library The ne...