Imperial Apartments
1339 Bedford Avenue | also 1198 Pacific Street | Crown Heights | built 1892
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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.
- 1898
Later Crown Heights flats could not match the Imperial's grandest suites
Once the five-year depression that followed the Panic of 1893 had passed, developers began putting up middle-class flats buildings across the district, typically four-story walk-ups. The Landmarks Preservation Commission says none of them matched the sumptuousness of the Imperial, whose suites were as grand as those in Manhattan's Dakota.
“…none would match the sumptuousness of the Imperial Apartments—which contained suites as grand as those of Manhattan's Dakota…”
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