Belmont Garage
115 East 84th Street | also 113 East 84th Street | Upper East Side | built 1905
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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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- 1884
A dentist replaces two old houses with a $12,000 brick boarding stable
In spring 1884 dentist George J. Baab demolished two old houses at 113 and 115 East 84th Street and had architect John McIntyre design a 51-foot-wide stable. It cost $12,000, roughly $300,000 by the author's 2017 reckoning. McIntyre used projecting brick for the slender openings and twin carriage bays of the ground floor, and a stepped corbel table carried the parapet. The site, east of Park Avenue, kept it near clients' homes but unobtrusively east of the railroad.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1898
A deputy sheriff sells out liveryman William Merriam's carriages and horses
William H. Merriam ran a livery stable at 142 Park Avenue as late as 1894 and then moved to the East 84th Street building, probably to expand. In April 1898 Deputy Sheriff Radley was handed court judgments totaling $2,091 against him, and twelve days after the April 15 date he auctioned off Merriam's carriages and horses.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1906
A runaway horse rented from the Star Stable gallops to the West Side and sends a donkey into the subway
The Star Stable then leased the building from the Baab family. On February 27, 1906 two men rented a runabout and a black horse named Billy from it. On 58th Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues the axle broke and Billy bolted, crashing through traffic until a freight train on Eleventh Avenue blocked him and a policeman grabbed the bridle. On the way he bumped a donkey being led to the Majestic Theatre, which ran down a subway kiosk's stairs and was calmed by station staff.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1908
The stable is converted into the Belmont Garage for automobiles
By 1908 automobiles were replacing horse-drawn vehicles. Mary Baab hired the architect J. W. O'Connor that February to adapt the building for motor vehicles. The renovations cost $3,000, were done for The Belmont Garage, the lessee, and included reinforced concrete beams.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1908
The Belmont Garage's foreman is arrested for taking customers' cars on joy rides
On Sunday, November 22, 1908 banker Leo Speyer learned that his car, which he thought was safe in the Belmont Garage, had been found wrecked in the gutter in front of the Plaza Hotel. The same afternoon lawyer Lindsay Tappan's chauffeur found his car missing. Detectives arrested garage foreman Michael Keene on November 24, and he confessed to taking both cars on joy rides.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
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