Daytonian in Manhattan

  The block of West 17th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues had become noticeably commercial by the post-World War I years.  Many of ...

  image via apartments.com The majority of the residents along the block of West 17th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in 1850 were i...

  from the collection of the Office of Metropolitan History The Goelet family settled in New York in the 17 th  century and soon established...

On August 1, 1889 William C. Burne purchased the two two-story wooden houses at Nos. 258 and 260 West 17th Street from Newman Cowen, ...

  The first Blacks arrived in New Amsterdam in 1626, imported from Africa as slaves by the Dutch West India Company.  During the British occ...

Following population boom of Greenwich Village the 1820's enterprising businessmen established stage routes between the hamlet and ...