Daytonian in Manhattan

  Until around 1855 a wooden house and store sat on the northeast corner of Reade Street and West Broadway.  The upper portion was home to t...

  In 1835 the family of James Dunn, a grocer at 137 and 147 Anthony Street (later named Worth Street), lived in the 25-foot-wide home at 143...

photo courtesy Tribeca Citizen In 1861 Public School No. 10 had sat within the plots at Nos. 131 through 135 Duane Street for fifteen ...

Brothers William E. and Freeman Bloodgood made a good partnership.  Freeman was a builder and his brother an architect.   They establis...

The labor shortage caused when blue collar New Yorkers were sent off to fight in the Civil War brought construction to a near halt.  Fol...

The widowed Catherine Ireland Cook had inherited a substantial amount of property below 14th Street by the last quarter of the 19th cen...