1076 2nd Avenue
also 300 East 57th Street | East Midtown | built 1948
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1947
Emery Roth's postwar luxury building opens on Second Avenue
Architect Emery Roth designs 300 East 57th Street, an apartment building completed in November 1947 on the corner of East 57th Street and Second Avenue. It is among the first new luxury buildings in Manhattan to go up during the housing boom after World War II.
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- 1953
J.D. Salinger moves from his apartment here to Cornish, New Hampshire
J.D. Salinger, whose novel "The Catcher in the Rye" came out in 1951, moves from an apartment at 300 East 57th Street to Cornish, New Hampshire, in 1953. As the book's fame grows, he gradually withdraws from public view.
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