Daytonian in Manhattan

  image from The New York Mirror, 1829 (copyright expired) On October 12, 1823, as the city expanded ever northward, members of three Episco...

  from the collection of the new York Public Library Cornelius Roosevelt Duffie Jr. was born on August 6, 1821.  He descended from old and d...

  The small group of Black worshippers who defected from the predominantly white First Baptist Church on Gold Street in June 1808 formed the...

  Clarence F. True was among the most prolific architects working on the Upper West Side in the late 19th century.  He would eventually desi...

  image by John m. August Will, 1898 from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York On October 8, 1835 a group of affluent men pe...