115-100 222nd Street

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

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1931
Selective Homes builds a single-vestibule Storybook row house at 115-100 222nd Street
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Built in 1931 under permit 2170-31 to designs by Monda & Bertolazzi, the house is one of only six on the block not built as a mirrored pair. Its lone vestibule has a lopsided roof that slopes farther down on one side, and its first-story window keeps three leaded transoms with clear and colored diamond panes. The brick chimney with stone blocks on its left side is shared with 115-102. The front doorway has since been squared off from its original triangular shape.
“No. 115-100 222nd Street is one of the district's six non-paired houses... Front entry opening altered from triangular to square headed…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1940
Radio wholesaler John Kopple lives here with his wife and teenage daughter
Among the street's early households recorded by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, around the 1940 census, was that of John Kopple, a Russian Jewish immigrant who worked in the wholesale radio trade. He shared the house with his wife Frances and their teenage daughter. Before coming here, the family had lived in a Bronx apartment house.
“John Kopple, a Russian Jewish immigrant in the wholesale radio business, lived with his wife Frances and their teenage daughter at No. 115-100…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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