Daytonian in Manhattan

The stories behind the buildings, statues and other points of interest that make Manhattan fascinating.

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Monday, September 7, 2026

The Lost Prisco State Bank - 73 Mulberry Street

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  photograph by Wurts Bros. from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York Born in Italy in 1876, Raffaele Prisco arrived in New ...
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Thursday, June 12, 2025

The 1890 The Lincoln - 84 Madison Street

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  Alexandre I. Finkle was born in New Orleans, the son of Polish immigrants.  He studied painting and architecture in Paris at the National ...
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Thursday, March 20, 2025

The Abused 1894 Bilger Stable - 49 Market Street

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Market Street was lined with handsome, brick-faced homes by the late 1820s.  The family of Irish-born Thomas Dunphy occupied 49 Market Stree...
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Wednesday, June 28, 2023

The Methodist Mission Building - 209 Madison Street

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  photograph via apartments.com When Joseph C. Skaden's three-story brick house at 209 Madison Street was offered for sale shortly after...
Monday, July 4, 2022

The Lost Essex Market-Eastern Dispensary Building - Essex and Broome Streets

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  Valentine's Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York, 1870 (copyright expired) A petition was presented to the Board of Alder...
Thursday, April 19, 2018

The 1891 Garfield Flats - 104 Forsyth Street

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A coat of chocolate-colored paint covered the checkerboard terra cotta tiles and polished stone columns of the first floor. A North Car...
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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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