269 Alexander Avenue

Mott Haven | built 1888

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.

1888
The top floor sits back behind a balcony formed by the roof of the bay below
On this house and its neighbors in the 1887-1888 Overington row, the top-floor windows are recessed deep within arches. In front of them, the roofs of the bay windows beneath become projecting balconies, edged by brick parapets topped with ornamental iron cresting and small slate roofs, as described in the 1969 Mott Haven Historic District report.
“…have forward projected balconies formed by the roofs of the bays below them. Ornamental iron crestings surmount the brick parapets…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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