1127 Forest Avenue

Morrisania | built 1902

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.

1902
No. 1127 introduces the angled-bay design Dickerson later reused at 1119-1121
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Nos. 1127 and 1129 have the elaborate angled bays, balustraded balcony and paneled wrought-iron railings also seen at Nos. 1119-1121. Their plans were filed a year before that pair's, so the Landmarks Preservation Commission identified this pair as the first use of the design.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1902
Warren C. Dickerson builds No. 1127 for investor William Crockett at about $8,000
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No. 1127 belongs to the row of six two-family houses at Nos. 1123-1133 that Warren C. Dickerson designed in 1902 for the investor William Crockett. Each house was estimated to cost $8,000. Crockett went on to develop more houses in the district, including Nos. 1115-1121 Forest Avenue with Archibald Hamilton the next year.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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