photograph by the author Clarence Lapowski was born on September 27, 1882 to Polish Jewish immigrant Samuel Lapowski and the former Bertha S...

T his mural is called "The Spirit of East Harlem" by Hank Prussing and Manny Vega. It is painted on a residential building at East...

The family of General Thomas H. Barber had lived in the old brownstone rowhouse at No. 45 East 68th Street for years when, following his dea...

Auctioneer Phillip A. Smyth refused to sell the rowhouse at No. 170 East 77th Street at his foreclosure auction on January 18, 1896.  He con...