75th Police Precinct Station House

486 Liberty Avenue | East New York | built 1920

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1886

    The 75th Precinct station house is built in Romanesque Revival style with an attached stable

    The 75th Police Precinct Station House on Liberty Avenue in New Lots was built in 1886. It is a three-story yellow brick building on a sandstone foundation, with a round corner tower and a Norman-inspired projecting entrance portico. A one-story brick passage links the station house to a two-story brick stable beside it.

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 2007

    The former station house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places

    The National Register of Historic Places added the 75th Precinct station house in 2007. It had stopped serving as a police station in 1973 and was later used by a local church.

    Source: Wikipedia

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