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Monday, October 7, 2013

The Lost United States Hotel -- Fulton and Pearl Streets

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Louis Oram illustrated the hotel around 1890 -- from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York, http://collections.mcny.org...
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Thursday, November 29, 2012

The 1807 Jasper Ward House -- No. 45 Peck Slip

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photo by Alice Lum In the first years of the 19 th century, the Ward brothers, Jasper and Bartholomew, grasped the opportunities of rea...
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Fish, Murder and Gangsters -- No. 251 Water Street (22 Peck Slip)

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Sweeping arched openings marked the street level -- photo by Alice Lum The Civil War made John N. Eitel a prosperous man.   The governme...
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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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