1059 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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1902
No. 1059 is designed with a rounded bay and a third-story gable
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Warren C. Dickerson gave No. 1059 and its twin, No. 1061, rounded two-story bays and a mansard roof pierced by dormers with sunburst-ornamented galvanized-iron pediments, and each house has a brick gable capped by a finial. Rock-faced stone bands mark the first-story bay. The landmark report notes the pair's design is nearly the same as Nos. 1043 and 1045 down the block.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1904
Tailor Charles Kugel and his wife Mary buy No. 1059
Charles and Mary Kugel bought No. 1059 in 1904. Both were born in Germany; Charles was a tailor, and they lived here with two sons who were also tailors and two daughters, a teacher and a stenographer. The other apartment went to dry goods salesman Frank Goldstein, his wife and their son, who sold shirts.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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