Exploring New York’s History One Landmark at a Time

New York is one of the most energetic, chaotic and fast paced cities in the world. Everything has to be the newest, the best, the most expensive, but for a city that looks forward, its long history is often forgotten. If you take the time to look, you can uncover the stories of one of the oldest cities in America.

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New York can be daunting, even for native New Yorkers. Explore the Landmarks of New York with a licensed New York Tour Guide exploring some of the city’s deepest history. All tours are on foot seeing the origins of Wall Street to where the most famous residents of Greenwich Village gathered.

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This group of row houses on Hancock Street in Bed-Stuy was built for developer George H. Stone. Stone owned and developed many buildings in this area in the 1870s and 1880s, these were built in 1884. For reference, most of the buildings in this part

Soho is a neighborhood that is rarely under appreciated for its architecture, but it still manages to surprise me with some of its buildings. Take this one at 28 Greene Street, this narrow street makes it difficult to fully appreciate the full beauty

In 1826, the United States turned 50, had 24 states, John Adams & Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4th, John Quincy Adams was president, and this house was built on Hudson Street. 518 was part of a wave of development on the far west side of th

This house at 71 Vanderbilt Avenue was built in 1850 for master carpenter Richard Pease. This was at a time when the population of Brooklyn was doubling every decade. Pease, like many other residents of this part of Vanderbilt tended to built houses

The Church Mission House, also known as the Protestant Welfare Agencies Building, was constructed as a part of the Episcopal Church’s increasing mission wing. The organization was conceived in the 1820s but construction on their head quarters i

Your eyes aren’t playing tricks on you, that is simultaneously a very skinny and very wide building. Its located at the intersection of Broadway and Broome Street in Soho and was built in 1896. Normally, proportions like this wouldn’t be

New York has always always been a city with a large wealth gap. For every gilded age mansion or modern skinny condo tower there are more homeless and food insecure families. Despite the very real issues the city faces, many charity organizations hav

This is somehow the third Fish house I’m featuring on this page, do you think they’re a big deal? This is specifically the Stuyvesant Fish House on 78th and Madison, not to be confused with the Stuyvesant Fish House on Gramercy Park South