Daytonian in Manhattan

The Rutgers family originally settled in America in Albany.   But by the 18 th century the Dutch clan had established itself in Manhatt...

In 1892 Henry Meyer lived in his comfortable brownstone rowhouse at 70 East 91 st Street.   It was a neighborhood of respectable upper-...

On May 7, 1910 the Real Estate Record & Builders’ Guide reported that William H. Housner had sold his three-story brick front ho...

In 1912 traffic at 23rd and Lexington Avenue seems nearly non-existent.  photograph from the collection of The New York Public Library ...