Daytonian in Manhattan

Following the end of the Civil War, development crept northward into the Yorkville district.  Access to the neighborhood was greatly enhance...

  Among the early developers who began transforming the mostly rural land east of Central Park at the end of the Civil War was Nicholas McCo...

  In 1873, Mary Barter, a widow, lived with her adult daughter, Ellen, in the newly-completed "double flat" at 174 East 80th Stree...

  James A. Frame was a prolific real estate developer in the later decades of the 19th century.  On December 1, 1883, the Real Estate Recor...

  photograph by the author As laborers returned to New York City following the end of the Civil War, construction resumed.  Within a few yea...

  The extension of the New York and Harlem Railway along Fourth Avenue (later Park Avenue) in the early 1830s sparked interest in the distri...