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Tuesday, August 11, 2026

The 1902 The Braender Apartments - 418 Central Park West

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  image via streeteasy.com Born in Germany, Philip Braender arrived in New York as a youth.  At the turn of the last century, he was a visib...
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Saturday, September 18, 2021

The 1903 Hotel Somerset - 150 West 47th Street

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  The exuberant gable and handsome portico have recently been removed.   postcard from author's collection The "apartment hotel...
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Tuesday, May 23, 2017

The Hotel Hargrave -- 106-112 West 72nd Street

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On January 6, 1903 Walter Stabler delivered an address to the Real Estate Class of the Y.M.C.A. on "The Development of the West Sid...
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Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Cloaks, Underwear and Smuggled Liquor -- Nos. 30-32 West 24th Street

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In 1910 the block of 24 th Street just west of Madison Square had seen three major transformations.   A fashionable residential ne...
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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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