185 East 162nd Street

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

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1939
Dillerwood Realty finishes a six-story Moderne apartment house designed by Israel L. Crausman
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Built in 1938-39 under permit 614 of 1937, this six-story building was developed by Dillerwood Realty Co. and designed by Israel L. Crausman. It is clad in beige brick, with rounded corners holding wrap-around windows, projecting brick spandrel panels and a cast-stone entrance portico with Moderne details. The entrance sits back from the street inside a raised light court reached by concrete steps, and a rectangular glass transom over the door may be original.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1939
The building joins the Grand Concourse district's largest cluster of Moderne apartment houses
This building belongs to a group of seven Moderne apartment houses between East 162nd and 163rd Streets, on both sides of Sheridan Avenue and along the Grand Concourse, the biggest such cluster in the historic district. The Landmarks Preservation Commission describes the group, mostly faced in smooth beige brick, as pale accents among the darker brick buildings put up before them.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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