242 West 65th Street
242 West 65th Street View of 242 West 65th Street from north east, Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive 242 West 65th Street by Tom Miller Following the death of his father, in 1890 George W. Prodgers took control of the construction firm Wm. Prodgers & Son, “an old-established firm of New York, the character of whose work has always been of...
209 West 64th Street
209 West 64th Street View of 209 West 64th Street from south east, Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive 209 West 64th Street by Tom Miller In 1884, the Upper West Side was being developed as a new, high-end district of Manhattan—all of it except for the San Juan Hill neighborhood, where tenements and ramshackle buildings were populated by a...
A New Exhibition on The Old Community opens!
by Megan Fitzpatrick A new exhibit is now on display at the Bloomingdale Library rediscovering a lost community on West 98th and 99th Streets between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West. Created by Rob Garber for the Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group, the exhibit is being shown at the Bloomingdale branch of the public library on West...