754 Beck Street

Longwood | built 1900

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.

1900
Warren C. Dickerson designs No. 754 as half of a Beck Street pair for George F. Johnson
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No. 754 and its twin No. 752 belong to a row of fourteen houses, laid out in seven pairs, that Warren C. Dickerson designed for George F. Johnson in 1900 on the east side of Beck Street, from No. 752 to No. 778. The 752-754 pair repeats the design Dickerson used at Nos. 724-726 down the street. The 1980 landmarks report called it remarkably intact, its only change an awning added to No. 754.
“Nos. 752-754 and 760-762 are remarkably intact : only the additions of awnin gs at Nos . 754 and 760 alt er the original appearance…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1980
Commission finds owner-occupied Longwood, home to 754 Beck Street, spared the South Bronx's decay
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The 1980 designation report for the Longwood Historic District, which includes 754 Beck Street, placed the neighborhood amid some of the worst devastation in the South Bronx. Even so, it found the blocks in good shape, crediting Prospect Hospital (built 1961-64) and the large number of homes lived in by their owners. It added that the district's even scale and consistent style give it a special sense of place.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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