Daytonian in Manhattan

photograph by the author Peter Stuyvesant was named director-general of New Amsterdam in 1647.  In 1651, he acquired a tract of land far nor...

In March 1912 Eric B. Dahlgren learned a painful lesson – do not cheat on Lucy Drexel Dahlgren. Lucy was a member of the socially pr...

Victorian architects viewed themselves as the rightful heirs to all the historic styles that preceded them and late 19th Century buildings ...

At the end of the 19th Century, the United States Custom Service was in need of a large warehouse building near the waterfront where customs...

photo by Alice Lum After the consolidation in 1898 of the five boroughs into the New York City we know today, the police departmen...

When Isaac Singer died in 1875 he left a fortune of $14 million, most of it gained through his Singer Sewing Machine Company.  Although ...

If you can count on one thing in New York City, it is that neighborhoods change. The area around Washington Street and Harrison Street wa...