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Tuesday, September 16, 2025

The Fred F. French Company's 1917 370 Central Park West

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    photograph by Beyond My Ken Fred Fillmore French founded the Fred F. French Company in 1910 when he was just 27 years old.  At the time,...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Murder at "The Monastery"-- No. 22 West 77th Street

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The West 77 th Street block between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue was especially alluring to apartment building developer...
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Saturday, October 15, 2016

Fred F. French's 1922 Nos. 59-63 East 54th Street

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For years the three four-story brownstone houses at Nos. 59 through 63 East 54 th Street had been in the same families.   In Oct...
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Saturday, December 1, 2012

The 1913 No. 299 Madison Avenue (Library Hotel)

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photo by Alice Lum By 1912 the once-fashionable residential Madison Avenue neighborhood in Midtown, like its more visible Fifth Avenue...
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Born in Dayton, Ohio, I relocated to New York city in 1978. An author, blogger, lecturer and historian, I have written the histories of more than 5,000 locations in Manhattan (as of March 2025). I am the author of "Seeking New York" and "Seeking Chicago," and contributed to several other books, and consulted for pieces in Architectural Digest, The New York Times, and similar publications..
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