760 Grand Conc

also 165 East 156th Street, 760 Grand Concourse | Concourse Village | built 1928

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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. 1928

    Charles Kreymborg & Son design a terra-cotta-trimmed apartment house at Grand Concourse and East 156th Street

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    Bogild Builders, Inc. put up this six-story Renaissance Revival building in 1928 to plans by Charles Kreymborg & Son. Polychrome terra-cotta shields are scattered across the textured beige brick, and Solomonic columns appear both on the cast-stone entrance portico and on window surrounds near the top, which ends in ogee pediments, finials and a molded cornice. The original double-hung sashes were later replaced.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1928

    Bronx-raised architect Charles Kreymborg designs 760 Grand Concourse with his son

    Charles Kreymborg had no academic training; he learned drawing through the E. G. Saltman Drawing Materials Company and apprenticed with architect Charles Stegmeyer. From 1924 to 1929 he worked with his son Charles H. Kreymborg as Charles Kreymborg & Son, and the Kreymborg firm became one of the chief designers in the Bronx. Together they drew 760 Grand Concourse along with apartment houses on Gerard and Walton Avenues.

    “From 1924-1929 he took his son Charles H. Kreymborg (1903-1994) into partnership changing the firm's name to Charles Kreymborg & Son.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1942

    A 1942 Bromley atlas labels 760 Grand Concourse as the Alexandria

    The building carried a name for a time: a 1942 Bromley atlas calls it the Alexandria, according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission. A tax photograph from the 1940s already shows storefronts at its base laid out much as they are today. Shops still fill the base, now behind replaced storefronts with awnings and signs.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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