Ralph S. Townsend's 1900 303-305 West 80th Street

Architect Herbert Spencer Styne-Harde (who most often dropped the "Styne" from his surname, professionally) would par…

The Lost Transit Building - 5-7 East 42nd Street

The Architectural Record, January 1903 (copyright expired) With commercial buildings moving ever northward, the private brownst…

The Edward Oppenheimer House - 118 East 61st Street

photo by Ted Leather In the last months of 1869, a row of 18-foot-wide residences was completed on East 61st Street between Lex…

The 1907 Epiphany Branch Library - 228 East 23rd Street

photo by the author In 1902 the Director of the New York Public Library related to the crowd assembled for the dedication of th…

The 1833 James Tallmadge, Jr. House - 5 Washington Square North

Between 1790 and 1797 the City purchased 13-acres of land near Greenwich Village as the site of a burying ground and execution …