Between 1888 and 1890, brothers Joseph W. and A. Alonzo Teets erected 21 brownstone-fronted houses on both sides of West 122nd Street betwee...

photograph by Carole Teller The newly formed Lexington-32nd Street Corporation acquired all the buildings along the western blockfront of Le...

Clarence Fagan True designed the four upscale rowhouses at 155 through 161 West 76th Street for Duncan C. McKinlay in 1890.  He designed t...

When this photograph was taken in 1912, buildings had crowded around the property.  from the collection of the New-York Historical Societ...

In 1881, architect William E. Waring designed two identical tenement-and-store buildings on the northeast corner of West Houston and Thomp...

By the last quarter of the 19th century, the Hell's Kitchen district was "one of the most miserable and crime-polluted neighborhoods in th...

Among the early developers who began transforming the mostly rural land east of Central Park at the end of the Civil War was Nicholas McCo...

photograph by Carole Teller Starting in 1867, reformers worked tirelessly during the 19th century to enhance living conditions among tenemen...

Born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1858, Jacob Wertheim came to New York City with his parents as a boy.  He started working at the age of 1...

How will we clean up Trump's unholy mess?Here are my 10 Commandments for Congress.These are major structural reforms tha

Lithographer George Hayward produced this lithograph in 1853.   from the collection of the New York Public Library On Independence Day 1809,...

With the coming of summer a dread materializes: will there be more and increasingly intense catastrophes around the world, characterized by wars, wildfires, floods, searing heatwaves…

Donald Trump exhibits the classic traits of psychopaths — superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance, a need for constant stimulation, a penchant for lying, deception and manipulation and…

In 1873, Mary Barter, a widow, lived with her adult daughter, Ellen, in the newly-completed "double flat" at 174 West 80th Street just wes...

photograph by Epicgenius In 1895, Irving T. Bush conceived a solution to shipping, storage and distribution costs.  His Bush Company organ...

James A. Frame was a prolific real estate developer in the later decades of the 19th century.  On December 1, 1883, the Real Estate Recor...

photograph by Anthony Bellov In the 1830s, the eastern blockfront of First Avenue between Eighth and Ninth Avenues was lined with low Fede...

Real estate was one of the few businesses in which women would thrive in the 19th century.  In 1888, Mary J. Coar hired architect Edward L...

22 Eldridge Street is the three-story building, second from left .  Close inspection of the single unshuttered window reveals iron bars.  ...

image via streeteasy.com Alma Gluck was born Reba Feinsohn in Romanian in 1884.  Her marriage to insurance agent Bernard Glick produced a ...

The decision prevents massive disenfranchisement and chaos in November.

In 1843, John Hoey and his family lived above his grocery store at 172 Eighth Avenue.  The three-story, brick-faced building was a near ma...

On February 9, 1895, the Real Estate Record & Guide described Cornelius W. Luyster as one of the few developers who built residences "fo...

photograph by Wurts Bros. from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York Jacob and Joseph F. Cullman learned the tobacco tradin...

image via apartments.com On June 17, 1873, the "brick house in front and small brick building in rear" at 5 Spring Street were auctioned. ...

In 1867 real estate agent Charles E. Pierce moved his family into the recently built house at 214 East 31st Street.  Three stories of red ...

photograph by Carole Teller Born in Germany, August Ruff was responsible for erecting  dozens of apartment buildings before his death in 19...

image via streeteasy.com Alonzo B. Kight began his career in 1891, acting  as both real estate developer and architect.  The 1898 A Histor...