Sutton Place Synagogue

225 East 51st Street | also 223 East 51st Street | Turtle Bay | built 1910

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.

1901
November 6
Rabbi Meyer Freeman and eleven members incorporate the congregation
Rabbi Meyer Freeman and eleven other members signed the incorporation papers of an Orthodox congregation, Beth Hamedrash Hachodosh Talmud Torah, on November 6, 1901. The group first met above a blacksmith shop at 401 East 50th Street. In 1906 it acquired a building at 221-223 East 51st Street, near the site of today's synagogue.
Source: spsnyc.org
1975
September 3
The congregation opens its new synagogue building at 225 East 51st Street
After a 1965 capital campaign launched at the Waldorf-Astoria with Senator Jacob Javits and UN Ambassador Arthur Goldberg as honorary chairmen, the congregation built a new synagogue on East 51st Street. It opened on September 3, 1975, and the congregation took the name Sutton Place Synagogue - The Jewish Center for the United Nations.
Source: Wikipedia
2001
September
The Sachs Family Educational Center opens with the Kaplan Nursery School
The synagogue became owner of the neighboring building at 229 East 51st Street in 1985. The Sachs Family Educational Center opened on that property in September 2001, welcoming its first nursery school students. It houses the Stanley H. Kaplan Nursery School and the Jackson Religious School.
Source: spsnyc.org

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