Daytonian in Manhattan

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Friday, January 31, 2014

The 1929 I. Miller & Sons Bldg -- No. 1552-4 Broadway

photo by Alice Lum In 1892 at the age of 19, a Polish cobbler, Israel Miller, arrived in New York City. The inventive sh...

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Tom Miller: 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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