photograph by the authorClarence Lapowski was born on September 27, 1882 to Polish Jewish immigrant Samuel Lapowski and the former Bertha Stenbock.  When the family became naturalized citizens in Texas in 1891, they changed their surname to Dillon. Young Clarence had a privileged education, graduating from Worchester...

The ground floor is undergoing renovation in 2019.Founded in 1851 The New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company immediately began gobbling up other financial services and communications firms.  When it laid plans to extend telegraphic wires from the East to the West Coast, it changed its name to the...

Auctioneer Phillip A. Smyth refused to sell the rowhouse at No. 170 East 77th Street at his foreclosure auction on January 18, 1896.  He considered the highest bid, $7,450, too low.  Before long a better offer was presented by developers Hall & Hall, who purchased the house next door as well.Thomas and William...

The Upper West Side embraced the concept of multi-family living early on.  At the turn of the last century scores of brick and brownstone residences, erected only 15 or 20 years earlier, were razed for apartment buildings.   In 1915 the Charmon Construction Company demolished eight rowhouses at the northwest...

The restaurant as it appeared in 1920.  Christmas wreaths adorn the windows and a roof of clay tiles has been added to the storefronts.  photo by William J. Roege from the collection of the New-York Historical Society.In the 1860's the block of Seventh Avenue between 25th and 26th Street was lined with second...