5288 Sycamore Avenue

Riverdale | built 1940

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.

1937
Sycamore Estates builds a one-story house on a lot cut from the Foster estate
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In 1937 the development firm Sycamore Estates put up a house here on one of the lots created when the old Charles W. Foster estate was broken up. Sarsfield J. Sheridan designed it as a one-story wood-frame building with a roughly L-shaped plan.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1946
Dante Caputo, married to the Buckners' granddaughter, buys the house
Dante Caputo bought the house in 1946. A longtime employee of the New York Life Insurance Company, he was married to the granddaughter of Myrtie L. and Thomas A. Buckner Sr., who had bought the first four lots carved from the old Charles W. Foster estate. Caputo went on to remodel the house.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1955
A 1955 remodeling turns the one-story house into a two-story box facing the Hudson
Additions and alterations in 1955 were designed first by Alton L. Craft and then by Ludwig P. Bono, who replaced him on the job. The result was a plain rectangular two-story house with a shallow hipped roof and aluminum siding. Large picture windows on the west side look toward the Hudson River.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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