Concourse Gardens South

181 East 163rd Street | also 940 Grand Conc, 171 East 163rd Street, 940 Grand Concourse | Concourse Village | built 1927

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1. 1927

   Springsteen & Goldhammer design Concourse Gardens South in the Mediterranean Revival style

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   Concourse Enterprises, Inc. built Concourse Gardens South in 1927 under permit 20 of that year, with Springsteen & Goldhammer as architects. The six-story building is red brick trimmed in terra cotta, with twisted Solomonic columns, wrought-iron balconettes, gargoyles on the parapets and corner towers roofed in Spanish tile. Round-arched entrances with decorated terra-cotta surrounds lead into the building.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1927

   Concourse Gardens South opens around a garden courtyard facing Joyce Kilmer Park

   The building wraps a large garden courtyard that opens onto the streets and onto Joyce Kilmer Park, with its many entrances arranged around it. It went up together with Concourse Gardens North at 960 Grand Concourse, though the two do not look alike. The Landmarks Preservation Commission calls the courtyard plan typical of its architects, who also designed the United Workers Cooperative Apartments and the Amalgamated Houses.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 1927

   Housing architects Springsteen & Goldhammer take on the Concourse Gardens commission

   George W. Springsteen, a Brooklyn native trained at Cooper Union and Pratt Institute, formed his partnership with Albert Goldhammer, a Cooper Union graduate, in 1919. The firm was active in low-cost housing in Manhattan and the Bronx; its first important project was the Amalgamated Cooperative Apartments of 1926-27, and it later designed the Amalgamated Dwellings on Grand Street in 1930.

   “Their first important housing project was the Amalgamated Cooperative Apartments (1926-27) in the Bronx.”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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