286 Columbus Avenue View of 286 Columbus Avenue from north along Columbus Avenue; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive The Split-Personality Greystone by Tom Miller, for They Were Here, Landmark West’s Cultural Immigrant Initiative Among the few professions in which women could prevail in 19th century New York was real estate. One of...
Shadowy forms that fly through a dark library, raucous unearthly music in Central Park, a bicycle bell that rings itself, a mysterious seamstress — these spectral tales and others will be our winter fare for a dark February evening. Writer Maria Dering has collected these ‘true’ stories from both century-old and face-to-face accounts. Original...
37 West 72nd Street View of 37 West 72nd Street taken from south along West 72nd Street; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive A “more pleasing type” of architecture by Tom Miller In the 1920s both sides of Central Park were seeing the demolition of private homes to make way for modern apartment buildings. The Upper West Side had...
53 West 72nd Street, The Janet View to the Northeast corner of Columbus Avenue and West 72nd Street; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive Singers and Sinners by Tom Miller Leopold Friedman was a partner in the real estate firm Lespinasse & Friedman, perhaps best known for erecting the massive Navarro Apartments on Seventh Avenue between 58th and...
106-112 West 72nd Street View of 106-112 West 72nd Street taken from north along West 72nd Street; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive New York’s Most Accessible Hotel by Tom Miller On January 6, 1903 Walter Stabler delivered an address to the Real Estate Class of the Y.M.C.A. on “The Development of the West Side.” In it, he outlined...
