Daytonian in Manhattan

In the first years following the Civil War  wealthy dry goods merchant  Jarvis Slade turned his focus to transforming the Tribeca distr...

By the mid-1850's the 21st Street block between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in Chelsea was lined with handsome brick and brownstone...

When Theodore E. Thomson designed the five 20-foot wide rowhouses along West 88th Street for James Carlew late in 1895, he chose a sin...

from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York In February 1830 a group of esteemed New Yorkers including Morgan Lewis, Jo...

In 1903 the opening of the IRT subway, which would make the neighborhood near the rising Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine more ...