210 East 68th Street

also 1165 3rd Avenue, 1159 3rd Avenue, 212 East 68th Street | Lenox Hill | built 1929

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1929

    George and Edward Blum design an Art Deco apartment tower

    Construction began in November 1928 on this 16-story apartment house at the southeast corner of Third Avenue and East 68th Street, designed by brothers George and Edward Blum. Stair-stepping brick bands and bright terra cotta in green, black and brown decorate the facade, and the building has no cornice. Apartments were taken quickly ahead of its 1929 opening.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1935

    Broadcaster Edward R. Murrow moves into the building

    After marrying Janet Huntington Brewster on March 12, 1935, Edward R. Murrow moved into 210 East 68th Street. Ten weeks after the wedding he wrote to a friend that Janet was living there while he seemed to be at the office most of the time.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1942

    January

    King Kong actress Fay Wray signs a lease at the building

    Fay Wray, remembered for playing Ann Darrow in the 1933 film King Kong, signed a lease at 210 East 68th Street in January 1942. She married screenwriter Robert Riskin that August and retired from acting for a time, returning to film and television in the 1950s when Riskin became ill.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 2005

    The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places

    210 East 68th Street went onto the New York State Register of Historic Places in May 2005 and the National Register that June. It is described as among the city's first Art Deco apartment buildings, noted for multicolored terra cotta bands that overlap and interweave.

    Source: Wikipedia

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