Monday was Washday
By Claudie Benjamin Talk about finds on the Upper West Side: Twenty- four years ago, Tiga McLoyd, Real Estate entrepreneur and a broker with Corcoran, took chance by the horns. His risk materialized as gold in the form of a 900 sq. one-bedroom apartment with a view at the Lincoln Spencer at 140 West 69th Street. He’s been living...
8 West 86th Street
8 West 86th Street View of 8 West 86th Street from north; Courtesy NYC Municipal Archive 8 West 86th Street by Tom Miller The gilded 1890s saw the construction of ornate marble or limestone palaces along the east side of Central Park. However, as the decade wore on, interest in a less fussy form of architecture and residential decoration caught...
The Broadway Malls
The Broadway Malls View of Broadway looking north near 2566 Broadway; Image Courtesy NYC Transit Museum, via New-York Historical Society. ca. 8 March, 1909. The Broadway Malls by Tom Miller Until 1811, the year the Commissioner’s Plan was released, Broadway stretched as far north as 10th Street, where it merged with the Bloomingdale...