286 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
A row with matched cornices, stoop rails and iron fences frames No. 286
No. 286 belongs to the ten-house row at 276-294 Alexander Avenue, built from 1863 to 1865 in a local vernacular touched by the French Second Empire and laid out as one block front. When the row was studied in 1969 it still held together through a single cornice line and largely intact ironwork: cast-iron yard fences and gates, stoop handrails and newel posts all lined up. The commission called such features once common but by then rare in New York.
“Even today the block preserves its unity with uniform cornice line and ironwork, most of which is still intact…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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