330 East 139th Street

also 274 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.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1892
Carl A. Millner designs a corner apartment house for John Cotter, with nine families and a store
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This corner building, 274 Alexander Avenue, is the end of a row of four apartment houses that Carl A. Millner designed for John Cotter in 1892-1893, at the same time as the larger corner house at 260-266 at the other end of the block. Built more cheaply and to a slightly smaller scale, each building held nine families and a store at street level.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1969
July 29
The corner pinnacle that once crowned No. 274 Alexander Avenue is gone by 1969
The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 1969 report notes that No. 274, the corner building of Cotter's row, once carried a pinnacle above its roof cornice. The commission thought a matching pinnacle probably stood on 260-266 Alexander Avenue at the other end of the block, tying the whole block front together; only a sheet-metal bracket remained there, and the pinnacle at No. 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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