Daytonian in Manhattan

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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

The 1928 Birns Building -- 111 Second Avenue

In 1915 Saul Birnzweig was in trouble. The somewhat shady entrepreneur had gotten in on the wildly popular phonograph or “talking ...

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Tom Miller: 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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