255 West 84th Street View of 255 West 84th Street aka 2321-2331 Broadway from south east; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive The Alameda by Tom Miller Although Charles V. Paterno earned his medical degree from Cornell University in 1899, he did not practice. The son of real estate dealer John Paterno, he and his brother Joseph took over the...
471 West End Avenue View of 471 West End Avenue from east ; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive 471 West End Avenue by Tom Miller In 1885 builder George W. Rogers commissioned the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White to design six houses that would wrap the southwest corner of West End Avenue and 83rd Street. West End Avenue was...
378 Amsterdam Avenue View of 378 Amsterdam Avenue from north east; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive 378 Amsterdam Avenue by Tom Miller Developer Bernard S. Levy was prolific on the Upper West Side in the last decades of the 19th century, erecting long rows of residences as well as several “flat,” or apartment buildings. On February...
51 West 95th Street View of 51 West 95th Street from south; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive The James & Catherine Hutchinson House — 51 W. 95th St. by Tom Miller In 1892, real estate developer George J. Harlow completed a group of five three-story-and-basement townhouses on West 95th Street, between Central Park West and Columbus...
219 West 81st Street View of 219 West 81st Street from south west; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive The Anonova by Tom Miller As Upper West Side residents increasingly embraced the concept of apartment living, real estate developers razed private homes—some only ten or twenty years old—to erect new, upscale buildings. In the fall...
