762 Beck Street

Longwood | built 1910

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. 762 Beck Street for developer George F. Johnson
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No. 762 is one of fourteen houses, laid out as seven pairs, that Warren C. Dickerson designed in 1900 for George F. Johnson along the east side of Beck Street north of East 156th Street. It forms a double house with No. 760. Like Nos. 752-754 and 768-770 nearby, the pair was given the same design as Nos. 724-726 Beck Street, with angular bays under polygonal roofs and arched windows on the second story.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1980
Landmarks commission finds the pair at Nos. 760-762 Beck Street remarkably intact
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When the Longwood Historic District was surveyed for its 1980 designation, the commission singled out Nos. 760-762 as remarkably intact. The only change it recorded to the pair's original appearance was an awning added at No. 760.
“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

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