271 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
A continuous slate roof leads the eye along the row to its corner tower
Above the main cornice of this row of six houses, a slate false roof runs unbroken across the tops of the houses toward the tower at the corner of 139th Street. The facades also feature brick panels under the windows, brick frames at the top-floor openings, rusticated trim at the doorways atop high stoops, and basements of rock-faced stone, according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission.
“A slate pseudo-roof rises above the main cornice and extends continuously along the tops of the houses, leading the eye up to the focal climax…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

Nearby