Daytonian in Manhattan

  Lithograph by Antonio Canova, around 1831, from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York In the first decades after the Revolu...

  Born into poverty, the son of an unsuccessful farmer, Horace Greeley began his career in journalist at the age of 15 in 1826 as a printer...

photo by Alice Lum In the decade prior to the Civil War the County of New York made do with a small brownstone building erected in 18...