262 Alexander Avenue

also 331 East 138th Street, 266 Alexander Avenue | Mott Haven | built 1893

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.

1893
John Cotter's corner apartment house with stores joins a row of seventeen
This five-story brick corner apartment house was built in 1892-1893, one of seventeen apartment houses in a row extending along Alexander Avenue and East 137th and East 138th Streets. Carl A. Millner designed it for John Cotter to hold eight families, with stores on the ground floor. The same architect and owner built the smaller nine-family houses at Nos. 268-274 at the same time.
“…built in 1892-1893 as part of a row of seventeen apartment houses extending along Alexander Avenue and 137th and 138th Streets…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1969
Lions' heads guard the Queen Anne doorway of Cotter's corner building
The 1969 Mott Haven Historic District report singled out the Queen Anne details of this corner building: textured brick panels between the windows, grooved and rusticated pilasters, and chimney projections on corbels at the second floor. Its Alexander Avenue doorway has colonnettes on stone brackets carved with lions' heads under a carved frieze. A sheet-metal bracket at the corner of the cornice probably once held a pinnacle like the one removed from No. 274.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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