1049 Clay Avenue
Concourse Village | built 1902
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1881
The Driving Club of New York leases Fleetwood Park, the trotting track on this site
In 1881 the Driving Club of New York leased the racetrack on William Morris's land, which took in this lot and roughly the area between East 165th and East 167th streets and Sherman and Webster avenues. Only club members could use Fleetwood Park, which had stables, a curved covered grandstand and a French Second Empire clubhouse. Scenes of the track appear in Currier and Ives lithographs and in early Frederic Remington drawings.
“During the following year, the race track was leased to the Driving Club of New York which ran a track on land that today is roughly bounded by East 165th Street…”
- 1903
German-born widow Mary Weyrauch buys No. 1049 and shares it with her children
Mary Weyrauch, a widow born in Germany, bought No. 1049 in 1903. She shared her apartment with her daughter, her son, who worked as a designer, and her daughter-in-law.
- 1905
Irish-born curtain salesman Michael Downey rents the second apartment at No. 1049
The 1905 state census shows Mary Weyrauch's tenant at No. 1049 to be Michael Downey, a curtain salesman born in Ireland. He lived in the house's other apartment with his wife, their two children and an English servant.
“The second apartment was rented to Michael Downey, an Irish-born curtain salesman, and his wife, two children, and their English servant.”
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