219 Columbus Avenue View to 219 Columbus Avenue from west; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive Breaking the Mortgage Broker by Tom Miller, for The Cultural Immigrant Initiative Among the real estate developers active in the Upper West Side in the late 19th century was Sarah J. Doying. Real estate was one of the few male-dominated industries in...
2162 Broadway View of 2162 Broadway from south; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive The Manhattan Towers Hotel by Tom Miller The burgeoning population of Upper West Side desperately needed churches, police stations and fire houses by the mid-1890’s. In June 1896 a meeting was held in Leslie Hall, on 83rd Street and Broadway, which resulted...
200-208 Columbus Avenue View to 200-208 Columbus Avenue from south; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive Cat on the Fritz by Tom Miller, for The Cultural Immigrant Initiative As the Upper West Side developed in the last quarter of the 19th century, Michael Giblin rapidly erected multiple buildings, many of them going up simultaneously only blocks...
120-122 West 72nd Street View of 120 West 72nd Street from north. Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive Harsen House by Tom Miller On December 20, 1890, the Real Estate Record & Builders’ Guide opined, “Seventy-second street is probably the best street on the West Side…on a fine afternoon it rivals 5th avenue in the elegance of the numerous...
By Claudie Benjamin Babacar Fall is not the owner of Gartner’s Hardware at 162 West 72nd Street. But, over the past 30 years, this shop with its hundreds of bolts, screws, tools, appliances, brushes, brooms, light bulbs and cleaning products along with rental and repair services has become his domain. “In charge of everything,” is...
