4660 Waldo Avenue

Riverdale | built 1972

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.

1971
A civil engineer who designed tools and small machines in wartime plans the house
Jonathan Coggeshall (1915-1993), the designer of this house in 1971-72, was a civil engineer. From 1941 to 1945 he designed tools and small machines for the Wright Aeronautical Corporation in Paterson, New Jersey, and from 1945 until at least 1948 he was a senior draftsman for the Foster Wheeler Corporation in New York City.
“Jonathan Coggeshall, a civil engineer, designed a Mid-Twentieth-Century Modern style house in Fieldston in 1971-72.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1972
Jonathan Coggeshall builds a Modern house down a steep slope for Norman Tarnoff
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Completed in 1972 for Norman Tarnoff, this Mid-Twentieth-Century Modern house by Jonathan W. Coggeshall has three stories, the lower two below grade on a steeply sloping lot. A bridge of steel and wood leads to the garage and the main entrance. Its angular roofline, large single-pane windows and vertical wood siding carry no applied ornament, and the Landmarks Preservation Commission found it substantially intact.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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