2710-2714 Broadway View of 2710-2714 Broadway taken from northwest; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive The Horn & Hardart Building by Tom Miller On November 14, 1912 the New-York Tribune announced that “Joseph V. Horn, of Douglasville, Penna, and Frank Hardart, of Philadelphia…are to build a big bakery on the Cosine...
160 West 82nd Street View of Ukrainian Autocephalic Orthodox Church of Saint Volodymyr in NY from east. Image Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive. The 1894 “West End Synagogue” aka Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Volodymyr in NY by Tom Miller On January 28, 1921 The American Hebrew reminded its readers of the...
2101-2119 Broadway View of The Ansonia from east. Image Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive. The Ansonia by Tom Miller Strolling along upper Grand Boulevard (which would be renamed Broadway) in 1895, William Earl Dodge Stokes had a vision: he imagined Broadway as a wide fashionable boulevard similar to the...
72nd Street Kiosk 1907 View of West 72nd Street IRT Kiosk. Courtesy Museum of the City of New York. The Sherman Square Station by Tom Miller When the idea of a subway line in New York City was first bandied about in 1864, the Upper West Side was mostly undeveloped, rocky terrain. It was not until February 1900 that the Rapid Transit...
2091 Broadway View of 2091 Broadway from east; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive The Wood, Dolson & Co. Building by Tom Miller Business was such in 1922 that the real estate firm Wood, Dolson & Co. required increased office space. Frederick R. Wood founded the firm just after the turn of the century as F. R. Wood & Co., and around...
