He was active as a journalist for over forty years but is principally noted as a highly influential architecture critic, and advocate of modern designs and defender of the skyscraper.
[8] In the 1870s, Schuyler supported Frederick Law Olmsted, a friend, H. H. Richardson, whom he admired,[9] and Leopold Eidlitz in the controversy surrounding the completion of the New York State Capitol buildings.
In the last few years of his career, Schuyler was a contributor to The Sun, and also wrote for many magazines and periodicals, particularly on the subject of architecture, in which he specialized.
He was a staunch advocate of the modern skyscraper, who believed that it was "a legitimate architectural expression of our times.
[14] In the book, similarly to Louis Sullivan's feelings in his 1892 book, Ornament in Architecture, he stated: "If you were to scrape down to the face of the main wall of the buildings of these streets, you would find that you had simply removed all the architecture, and that you had left the buildings as good as ever.
Schuyler died of pneumonia shortly thereafter at his home at 250 Winyah Avenue, New Rochelle, New York, on July 16, 1914.