Drawing of the A. T. Stewart Mansion, northwest corner Fifth Avenue and 34th Street, 1869. Built on the site of the Townsend Residence. The Stewart Mansion housed the Manhattan Club from 1890-1899. This block is now the site of the Empire State...
This building once housed Oppenheim Collins and Company. Founded in 1871 by Albert D. and Charles J. Oppenheim, Oppenheim Collins was originally a New York City skirt manufacturer, later branching into department stores catering to women. The first...
Erie Canal; New York (State); Land sale; Advertisement.
Advertisment for New York Canal Lands on Sale that appeared on March 6, 1824 in the New-York American. Two hundred thousand acres were offered for sale on or near the intended route of the Erie Canal, anticipating accessibility by water "as soon as...
The building on the left is Shuster Hall on the Bronx campus of Hunter College (now Lehman College, CUNY). Opened in 1957, Shuster Hall was constructed for $3,000,000 and housed the School of General Studies that began offering evening classes in...
Board of Trade believes that dwellings in the right of way of the first section of the coming expressway can be moved or relocated. In Scrap Book. May 1943 - April 1949. (p. 48a)