Daytonian in Manhattan

photo by Wurts Bros. from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York. In 1818 Robert Lenox paid the Corporation of the City of Ne...

By the last decade of the 19th century, the concept of industrial schools--in which underprivileged youths were trained in manual skills for...

  photograph by the author Bentley Squier was a major player in the development of the Upper East Side in the years following the Civil War....

  The neighborhood around St. Patrick's Cathedral on Mulberry Street, completed in 1815, was filled with a mixture of residents in 1827...

  Thomas B. Ridder was a successful tobacco merchant and a councilman.  In 1851 he was leasing the newly-built, three-story house at 42 Char...