675 Walton Avenue

also 660 Walton Avenue | Concourse Village | built 1936

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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. 1935

    The city sells subway right-of-way lots on Walton Avenue for apartment houses

    In 1935 the New York City Board of Transportation sold a group of lots on Gerard and Walton Avenues above East 153rd Street, facing Franz Sigel Park. The city had acquired them from the Astor estate as a route for the IRT's Jerome Avenue subway line. Four apartment houses went up on the lots in 1935-36, right above the working subway line, and this was one of them.

    “…the 1935 sale by the New York City Board of Transportation of several lots on Gerard and Walton Avenues, north of East 153 rd Street…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1936

    An apartment house rises on top of the Jerome Avenue subway, and a tenant worries

    Walger Building Co., Inc. built this six-story Moderne building in 1936 directly over the Jerome Avenue subway line. Letters in Department of Buildings files deal with soundproofing against train noise and promises not to disturb the subway structures. One new tenant asked whether it was safe to hang mirrors and pictures, fearing the vibrations would knock them down; the department replied that the building was structurally safe.

    “This structure was built directly on top of the Jerome Avenue subway line…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1936

    Miller & Goldhammer design one of their two buildings in the district

    The building was designed by George Gottlieb Miller and Albert Goldhammer, whose partnership lasted only from about 1935 to 1937. Miller, educated at Columbia, had been chief draftsman for Gronenberg & Leuchtag before starting his own practice in 1921. Goldhammer, a Cooper Union graduate, had been a partner in Springsteen & Goldhammer from 1919 to 1934. Their only other building in the district is 710 Gerard Avenue.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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