Daytonian in Manhattan

 Charles Tiffany, during the midst of America’s first great depression, opened his first small store across from City Hall in 1837. His b...

In the early 1880s, the 28th Precinct faced a problem. When the station house on 59th Street was constructed in 1851 the precinct, covering...

Rabbi Bernard Drachman was a man of religious convictions. While he recognized that the old Orthodox ways necessarily had to be adapted to ...

The Century Association at the time of its completion in 1891 - photo NYPL Collection Decades after he joined the Century Association in...

  At the turn of the 20th Century, Manhattan’s wealthy were fleeing northward from “Millionaire’s Row” as retail concerns crept ever clo...

In 1901 John Jacob Astor, Jr. did what, to many socially prominent New Yorkers, was unforgivable.  While three previous Astors had demoli...

On December 19, 1808 a small congregation formed The Cedar Street Presbyterian Church on Cedar Street near William Street.  As the city gre...