380 East 166th Street

Concourse Village | built 1910

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1. 1910

   Neville & Bagge design a four-story apartment house at Clay Avenue and East 166th Street

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   Developer Ernest Wenigmann commissioned this neo-Renaissance apartment building from the firm of Neville & Bagge in 1910. Four stories tall, it is faced in beige brick at the basement and first story and in red brick on the floors above. The Landmarks report lists it on the south side of East 166th Street between Clay and Webster avenues, also numbered 1068 Clay Avenue.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1910

   A superintendent, a patrolman and two bookkeepers are among the first tenants

   Built for nine families, the building had six apartments occupied when the 1910 census taker came. Residents included superintendent Leonard D. Sloan with his wife and two daughters, police patrolman Samuel Brandwein, Russian-born bookkeeper Allen Bauman and his family, the elderly German-born Louise Luther with her schoolteacher daughter, bookkeeper Ernest W. Farmer, and Austrian-born electrician William Pollock.

   “The residents were Leonard D. Sloan, the superintendent (who probably lived in the basement apartment), and his wife and two daughters; police patrolman Samuel Brandwein…”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 1959

   The building is reconfigured from nine apartments into sixteen

   When it opened in 1910 the building held nine apartments, two on each floor plus one in the basement. In 1959 it was divided into sixteen units, nearly doubling the number of apartments at the corner of Clay Avenue and East 166th Street.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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