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...

photograph by Carole Teller On January 5, 1882, Joseph Schwarzschild and Ferdinand Sulzberger sold the four "five-story stone front ten...

  photograph by Anthony Bellov In the 1830s, the eastern blockfront of First Avenue between Eighth and Ninth Streets was lined with low Fede...

 photograph by Carole Teller Born in Germany, August Ruff was responsible for erecting  dozens of apartment buildings before his death in 19...

  Midway between two elegant residential enclaves--Washington Square and Union Square--the block of East 11th Street between University Plac...

photograph by Carole Telle r   In 1837, just 26 years after the Commissioners' Plan laid out on paper the streets that would dissect lan...