101 East 161st Street

also 878 Gerard Avenue, 109 East 161st Street, 895 Walton Avenue | Concourse Village | built 1928

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

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1928
Samuel Belkin builds a one-story row of stores on East 161st Street
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Samuel Belkin, through the S.B.L. Building Corp., filed plans in 1928 for this one-story commercial building designed by Lang & Rosenberg. Its curved front runs along East 161st Street on an irregular lot reaching both Gerard and Walton Avenues, and the slope of 161st Street exposes the basement on the Walton Avenue side.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1928
Terra-cotta horse heads and Gothic tracery crown the 161st Street stores
Lang & Rosenberg topped the low building with a Gothic Revival parapet of terra cotta on its main and west fronts. The parapet combines stylized tracery, zigzag bands, rope moldings and knob finials with sculpted horse heads. The storefronts below have since been replaced.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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