Daytonian in Manhattan

photograph by the author In 1651, Peter Stuyvesant established two farms far north of New Amsterdam.  The  lane that separated Bouwerij #1 a...

  The architraves around the windows would have originally looked much like those of 23 West 9th Street, at the right. photograph by Richard...

  In 1861, Richard Grant White moved his family into the newly built house at 186 Tenth Street (renumbered 118 East 10th Street in 1867).  I...

123 East 10th Street (left) is identical to its next door neighbor. Once part of Director General Peter Stuyvesant's farm,  or  bouwerij...

  photograph by Frank Hosticka Developer John H. Selzam hired architect Theophilus G. Smith in 1878 to design four flat buildings at 82 thro...