2400 Webb Avenue

also 2430 Devoe Terrace | University Heights | built 1963

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

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1934
October 14
Former acting mayor Edward J. Walsh dies at the Webb Sanitarium on this site
The Webb Sanitarium, a hospital that once stood at 2400 Webb Avenue, is where Edward J. Walsh died of a kidney disorder. A Fordham-trained lawyer, Walsh had served in the State Assembly, spent six years as a Bronx alderman and was acting mayor of New York for two days in 1929. He was the Democratic candidate for a Bronx Municipal Court seat and died before the election.
Source: Wikipedia
1937
January
Former Troy city court judge Thomas F. Doherty dies at the Webb Sanitarium on this site
The Webb Sanitarium, a general hospital that once stood at 2400 Webb Avenue, at 188th Street, offered medical, surgical and maternity care. On January 27, 1937, the New York Times reported that Thomas F. Doherty, a former City Court judge in Troy, New York, who had held a city legal post, had died there of gallstones.
Source: Wikipedia
1938
July
The Webb Sanitarium files plans for a $150,000 building on its 188th Street corner
The Webb Sanitarium, a private general hospital that once stood at 2400 Webb Avenue, at 188th Street, expanded in 1938. On July 27 that year the New York Times, reporting on newly filed building plans, said the sanitarium would put up a $150,000 structure on the 188th Street corner.
“Webb Sanitarium to Erect $150,000 Structure on 188th St. Corner…”
Source: Wikipedia

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