255 Hamilton Avenue

New Brighton | built 1909

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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. 1975

    The house at 253-255 Hamilton Avenue is split into two homes behind a party wall

    Under an alteration filed in 1975, the frame house built about 1909 was divided into two residential units separated by a party wall and standing on two tax lots, 253 and 255. In the same work the front was covered in stucco trimmed with ceramic tiles around the openings, and the side walls were resurfaced too.

    “These changes occurred in conjunction with the subdivision of the house into two residential units, divided by a party wall and occupying two tax lots…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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