Sandwiched between so many other restored brownstones and townhouses on Sixth Avenue between 11th and 12th Streets are the lovely Milton Apartments. Built in 1890, these two four-story buildings (numbers 489 and 491) have pretty Queen Anne–style details.
I don’t know who Milton was, but a Brooklyn Daily Eagle article from October 1890 records this real estate transfer:
“On Sixth Avenue, near Eleventh Street, two four story brick dwellings, 20 x 60, for six families and store in each. George O. Van Orden, owner; cost $32,000.”
Wonder what those two buildings that collectively make up the Milton Apartments costs today!
Ephemeral New York 
