30 Westervelt Avenue

New Brighton | built 1882

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.

1882
Saloon keeper Joseph Wilks builds a brick double house for his family
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Joseph Wilks, who ran a saloon and perhaps a hotel at Jersey Avenue and Richmond Terrace in the 1870s and early 1880s, bought this plot from Mary and Dr. Theodore Walser in 1870. Maps suggest the three-story brick double house at Nos. 30-32 went up between 1878 and 1882, and his will describes it as the home of Wilks and his daughters. The Wilks estate still owned the property through the 1920s.
“…referred to in his will as die residence of Wilks and his daughters. The property was owned by die Wilks estate through the 1920s.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1925
Sign painter Joseph Sabloski and carpenter Stanley Pomianowski live at No. 30
The double house seems to have been split into apartments by 1900; George L. Baker, a broker, and William Stuart, a commission agent, were among its tenants in the century's first decade. By 1925 several families lived in it, and the households in No. 30 included those of sign painter Joseph Sabloski and carpenter Stanley Pomianowski.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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