Daytonian in Manhattan

  Real estate developer George Schreiner was active in the Yorkville district in the 1880s and 1890s, working most often with architect Ed. ...

In 1811 Commissioners’ Plan laid out on paper the streets and avenues that would criss-cross Manhattan above 14 th Street.   Count...

The Bond Street area, in the 1830s, was one of the city’s two most exclusive residential neighborhoods.  The blocks branching off Lafay...

The brownstone trim has been painted white and the brickwork red; but overall the building is astonishingly well-preserved -- photo gvshp....

Gradually, whether good or bad, tragedy fades from our historic memory.  Little by little grievous disasters become, at best, stories p...