Tom Miller

photograph by Anthony Bellov In 1902, the northern edge of Manhattan's Chelsea district was just seeing the influx of industry. That year, still eight years before the opening of the magnificent Pennsylvania Station one block to the north, Isidor H. Kempn... See more

Fr ederick P. James was the head of the banking and brokerage firm of F. P. James & Co. In 1854, he erected three upscale homes on the south side of West 12th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Abutting them to the east were six rowhouses built b... See more

Robert Voorhies purchased eight lots on the south side of East 16th Street, just steps from elegant Stuyvesant Square in January 1852 for $16,800--just over $700,000 in 2026 terms. The houses he erected on the site went up with blinding speed and only nin... See more

The two-block long Beekman Place was opened in 1860. Running from 49th to 51st Street, it sat on land that had formerly been the Beekman family's country estate. On December 18, 1865, former Methodist minister Samuel W. Dunscomb purchased the land from Ja... See more

The two-block long Beekman Place was opened in 1860. Running from 49th to 51st Street, it sat on land that had formerly been the Beekman family's country estate. On December 18, 1865, former Methodist minister Samuel W. Dunscomb purchased the land from Ja... See more