47 Plaza Street West
also 949 Union Street, 47 Plaza St West | Park Slope | built 1928
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1927
Developer Jacob Mark hires Rosario Candela for a flatiron apartment house on the site of a large private home
In 1927 developer Jacob Mark commissioned architect Rosario Candela to design an apartment building at the corner of Plaza Street West. It replaced a large single-family house then occupied by shipbuilding magnate Edward P. Morse. Mark had already hired Candela a year earlier for the Berkeley Plaza Apartments at 39 Plaza Street.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1928
The building is finished and the Morse family moves in as tenants
When Candela's apartment house was completed in November 1928, Edward P. Morse and his family rented three of the apartments. Morse had been living in the large house the building replaced. The building has three large apartments per floor, and 47 units counting the doctors' suites and the superintendent's flat.
“When the new apartment building was completed in November 1928, Morse and his family rented three of the apartments.”
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- 1928
Candela's flatiron plan hides a 47-degree point and a trick elevator panel
Rosario Candela fitted three apartments per floor into an unconventional flatiron footprint, ending in a point at Union Street. The Plaza Street facade is concave, and the point culminates at an angle of 47 degrees. In the elevator to the penthouse, a mahogany panel flips open to reveal the penthouse's front door, while the other apartments open from a standard elevator door.
“Although the Plaza Street facade is concave, the point culminates at an angle of 47 degrees.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2017
The New York Times profiles the building's hand-operated elevators
A New York Times article of December 15, 2017, by Andy Newman, looked at the shrinking number of manually operated elevators in New York buildings. Much of the story concerned this building and one of its elevator operators.
“The piece, written by Andy Newman, was devoted to the diminishing number of manual elevators in New York City buildings and focused in large part on 47 Plaza Street West…”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2019
Park Slope Civic Council honors the restoration of the building's wrought iron railing
At a March 2019 meeting, the Park Slope Civic Council gave an Ortner Preservation Award to 47 Plaza Street West for restoring the wrought iron railing around the 1928 Candela building. The 2018 work was done by RKLA Studio, Forerunner Creations and Artistic Masonry of Queens. The prize recognized rehabilitation of a historic structure.
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