Have you ever passed by an interesting residential building in New York City and wanted to know more about its history? In this series, Brick Underground teams up with Tom Miller, creator of Daytonian in Manhattan, a blog about Manhattan buildings and other historic architecture. Each week, we run an excerpt from the Daytonian’s archives with a link to the full article.
Once part of Director General Peter Stuyvesant’s farm, or bouwerij, the block of East 10th Street between Second and Third avenues saw an explosion of development in the early 1850s.
Robert and Franny Carnley moved into a newly built house at 191 10th St. and in 1854, Robert erected two matching homes next door to each other at 193 and 195 (they would be renumbered 123 and 125 East 10th St. in 1865)…