601 West End Avenue

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1916
Emery Roth designs a limestone apartment house for developer Alfred Saxe
Developer Alfred Saxe formed a corporation in 1915, bought the corner lot and hired Emery Roth, whom he had also used for the Hotel Belleclaire. Roth's plans, filed in May 1915, put the cost of the 12-story building at $260,000. Completed early in 1916, it is faced in limestone, mixes Italian Renaissance design with touches of Vienna Secession, and originally had one apartment per floor.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1918
September 21
Resident Blanche Lasky, sister of producer Jesse Lasky, runs down a boy in Yonkers
Blanche Lasky, sister of film producer Jesse L. Lasky and former wife of Samuel Goldwyn, settled into 601 West End Avenue with her daughter after their 1915 divorce. On September 21, 1918, she hit a seven-year-old boy with her car in Yonkers, and he was seriously hurt. The following March she married Hector Turnbull, a Tribune dramatic editor, days after he returned from France.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1975
The Mayflower Nursing Home faces closure over care and safety violations
Bernard Bergman operated the Mayflower Nursing Home, which was set up in the building in 1957. In 1975 it faced closure over reported deficiencies in care and safety violations. In 1977 the building sold out of foreclosure for $500,000, and a partnership went on to convert it into cooperative apartments.
Source: Wikipedia

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