4500 Delafield Avenue

also 4421 Manhattan College Parkway | Riverdale | built 1938

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.

1938
A brick Colonial Revival house rises at Delafield Avenue and Manhattan College Parkway
This brick-faced house on the corner of Delafield Avenue and Manhattan College Parkway went up sometime between about 1933 and 1938; its architect and first owner have not been identified. It was built in the Colonial Revival style, with a broken pediment over a front door that once sat directly beneath the second-easternmost upstairs window.
“Built in the 1930s in the Colonial Revival style, this house historically featured a broken pediment above the main entrance…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1990
Avram Stein's renovation adds a brick-and-glass wing and changes the house's look
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In 1990, under owner Avram Stein, the house was extensively renovated, adding a one-story brick-and-glass wing designed by Studio Rai Architectural Design to the front. The work also altered the main entrance, removed the upstairs shutters and changed the roof, adding a new gable on the main facade. The Landmarks Preservation Commission later judged that the renovation had drastically altered the 1930s house's appearance.
“…the extensive 1990 renovation of the house resulted in the removal of the second-floor shutters and changes to the roof…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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