1001 Grand Conc

also 123 East 164th Street, 1001 Grand Concourse | Concourse | built 1941

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1940
Horace Ginsbern designs a red-brick Moderne apartment house at 1001 Grand Concourse for Kleban and Leader
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Kleban and Leader filed plans in 1940 for this six-story apartment house at East 164th Street, completed in 1941 to Horace Ginsbern's design. Most of the district's later buildings are beige brick, but this one and Ginsbern's 1035 Grand Concourse stand out in red. Upper-floor windows run in horizontal bands, the corners have wrap-around openings, and original aluminum address numbers survive on the 164th Street side.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1940
Horace Ginsbern, born near Minsk and an architect of the Harlem River Houses, designs 1001 Grand Concourse
Horace Ginsbern was born near Minsk, came to America as a boy, and had his own firm by 1921, changing his surname from Ginsberg around 1933. He laid out hundreds of Bronx apartments, worked on the Harlem River Houses, and with his son and Marvin Fine designed the whole Chock Full O' Nuts restaurant chain. The 1940-41 building at 1001 Grand Concourse is one of four Ginsbern apartment houses in the district.
“Ginsberg (he changed his name to Ginsbern c. 1933) was especially active in the design and layout of hundreds of apartment in the Bronx…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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