1057 Clay Avenue

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

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1905
Real estate agent Floyd Lord rents part of No. 1057 to a police sergeant
Floyd Lord, a real estate agent, owned No. 1057 in 1905 and made it his home along with his wife, their son and two daughters, and one servant. He rented the other apartment to Benjamin Wolf, a police sergeant, and Wolf's wife. The Landmarks Preservation Commission notes that police and fire department workers were among the renters on the block.
“Real estate agent Floyd Lord owned No. 1057 where he resided with his wife, two daughters, son, and a single servant.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1941
No. 1057 is converted into one apartment and twelve furnished rooms
In 1941 No. 1057 was converted into one apartment plus twelve furnished rooms, the earliest of the subdivisions on Clay Avenue listed in surviving Buildings Department records. The Landmarks Preservation Commission dated the start of such conversions to the early 1940s; Nos. 1046 and 1067 on the same block were later also turned into furnished rooms.
“No. 1057 into one apartment and twelve furnished rooms in 1941…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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