Polish Slavic Federal Credit Union
138 Greenpoint Avenue | Greenpoint
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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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- 1898
Wilson & Dassau design five one-story storefronts on Greenpoint Avenue for Charles Heidelberger
No. 138 was one of five storefronts, Nos. 138-146, that the firm Wilson & Dassau designed for Charles Heidelberger and that were built in 1898, according to Brownstoner. The row was one-story, of brick and wood with fronts of glass and galvanized iron. The firm specialized in small commercial properties, and its office was then at 206 Graham Avenue before it moved to Manhattan.
Source: brownstoner.com
- 1915
A limestone Beaux-Arts front is added to No. 140 in 1915, turning two storefronts into a small temple
In 1915 an unknown architect clad two of the five storefronts, including No. 140 beside No. 138, in limestone with a classically inspired Beaux-Arts front. Rusticated voussoirs and keystones framed the windows, and a columned entry carried a triangular pediment and frieze. Brownstoner likens the result to a small Greek temple, maybe meant for a bank or insurer, and notes that No. 138 still shows how the row first looked.
Source: brownstoner.com
- 1982
A transit workers' union local makes the former bank at 140 Greenpoint Avenue its headquarters
When the block was considered for landmarking in the early 1980s, the limestone former bank at No. 140 housed Local Union 1790 of the TWUA-CIO, a transit workers' union. No. 138 next door had been clad entirely in brick, and the rest of the Wilson & Dassau row had become the Polonaise Terrace Catering Hall.
Source: brownstoner.com
- 2013
The Polish Slavic Federal Credit Union occupies the old stone front and annexes No. 138
By the time Brownstoner wrote in January 2013, the building at 138-140 Greenpoint Avenue housed the Polish Slavic Federal Credit Union and had been polished up considerably. No. 138 had been annexed to the credit union and re-clad, though the writer found the modern cladding far less successful than the 1915 limestone work next to it.
Source: brownstoner.com
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