Daytonian in Manhattan

  James Ross and Charles R. McNeill established their architectural practice in 1898.  Among their first commissions was the designing of si...

from the collection of the New York Public Library. The State Legislature enacted a statute in 1796 to erect two New York State prisons, one...

Following the end of the Civil War, development crept northward into the Yorkville district.  Access to the neighborhood was greatly enhance...

Between 1888 and 1890, brothers Joseph W. and A. Alonzo Teets erected 21 brownstone-fronted houses on both sides of West 122nd Street betwee...

photograph by Carole Teller The newly formed Lexington-32nd Street Corporation acquired all the buildings along the western blockfront of Le...

image by Wurts Bros. from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York   Bickford's Restaurants were a familiar presence in the ...