250 West 88th Street View of 250 West 88th Street from north east; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive The Metropolitan by Tom Miller Real Estate developer William J. Merritt often acted as his own architect, designing rows of middle-class homes on the Upper West Side in the late 19th century. But when he planned an apartment building on the...
Events Archive Events Archive For more recent archived events, please check the Events Calendar. 20242023202220212020201920182017201620152013 - 201220112010200920082007Pre - 2007 April April 18, 2024: “The New York Game” with Kevin Baker April 3, 2024: “All the Rage: The Hidden History of Cycling” with Evan Friss...
2641 Broadway View of 2641 Broadway taken from southeast; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive The Grimm Building by Tom Miller In 1871 Henry Grimm was ahead of the game. He purchased the northwest corner lot at 100th Street and Broadway—then called the Boulevard—and erected a building. Within a decade the streets of the...
2626 Broadway View of 2626 Broadway from west. Image Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive. The Metro (Midtown) Theatre by Tom Miller The seven-story Glenham Apartments opened at No. 2626 Broadway, between 99th and 100th Streets, in 1902. The sprawling apartments–seven and eight rooms each–were by no means...
Columbus Circle
By Claudie Benjamin Columbus Circle has been a moving target for decades with its character and the geography of its traffic routes changing over time. In the early 1940s, artist Henry E. Schnakenberg (1892-1970) who then lived on West End Avenue, captured the vitality of the southeast corner of West 58th Street. The painting, now part...
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