The Mary C. Canty House - 239 East 31st Street

Completed around 1854, 151 East 31st Street was one of a long row of identical, brick-faced houses between Second and Third Avenu…

From Grocery to "Dive Saloon" to Pita Shop -- 441 Third Avenue

The horsewalk, or passage between buildings to the rear yard, survives to the right of the building. Nicholas Betjeman lived ab…

The Cuthbert Adamson House - 221 East 31st Street

Constantine Adamson was 21 years old in 1805 when he became an apprentice in a London apothecary shop.  After first immigrating…