Daytonian in Manhattan

  In 1843, John Hoey and his family lived above his grocery store at 172 Eighth Avenue.  The three-story, brick-faced building was a near ma...

  On February 9, 1895, the Real Estate Record & Guide described Cornelius W. Luyster as one of the few developers who built residences...

  photograph by Wurts Bros. from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York Jacob and Joseph F. Cullman learned the tobacco tradin...

  photograph by the author As laborers returned to New York City following the end of the Civil War, construction resumed.  Within a few yea...

  image via apartments.com On June 17, 1873, the "brick house in front and small brick building in rear" at 5 Spring Street were a...