282 Alexander Avenue

Mott Haven | built 1865

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1865
No. 282 is finished as one of ten matching brick houses with a shared cornice and ironwork
No. 282 is part of the ten-house row built from 1863 to 1865 on the east side of Alexander Avenue. Its bracketed, paneled roof cornice runs at the same height as its neighbors' but breaks at each house to mark it off. In 1969 the Landmarks Preservation Commission noted that most of the row's cast-iron fences, stoop handrails and newel posts were still in place and carefully aligned.
“The paneled and bracketed roof cornice, although of uniform height for the row, breaks at each house, giving identity to each.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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