272 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.

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1893
A corner pinnacle crowns the far end of John Cotter's apartment row
This building stands in the middle of Cotter's four-building row, which ends at No. 274 on the 139th Street corner. That corner building once carried a pinnacle above its cornice, and the Landmarks Preservation Commission thought a matching one probably stood on 260-266 at the other end of the block, framing the whole front including this building; by 1969 the pinnacle at 274 had been removed.
“No. 274, the corner building, once had a corner pinnacle above the roof cornice which was probably matched by a similar one at No. 260-266…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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