800 Grand Conc

also 800 Grand Concourse | Concourse Village | built 1955

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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.

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  1. 1953

    Fleischmann's Yeast laboratories make way for 800 Grand Concourse

    Before this apartment house went up, the site held a two-and-a-half-story masonry building that housed laboratories of the Fleischmann's Yeast company, according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission. That earlier building appears in a 1940s city tax photograph. It was replaced by the six-story apartment house begun in 1953.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1953

    Hyman I. Feldman designs 800 Grand Concourse as a modern garden apartment house

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    Designed by Hyman I. Feldman in 1953, this large Modern building is one of just two apartment houses in the Grand Concourse Historic District built after 1945. It follows the garden apartment tradition, with an H-shaped plan that opens two big courtyards, one facing the Grand Concourse and one facing Concourse Village West.

    “Only two apartment houses within the historic district were constructed after 1945. The large Modern style apartment house at 800 Grand Concourse, designed by Hyman I. Feldman in 1953…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1953

    Hyman I. Feldman, designer of more than 4,000 buildings, takes on 800 Grand Concourse

    Feldman was born in Lemberg, now Lviv, and brought to New York in 1900. After studying at Cornell, Yale and Columbia he opened a practice in 1921 and went on to design well over 4,000 residential and commercial buildings. In 1932 the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce gave him its first award for the best-designed apartment house, for his Cranlyn Apartments in Brooklyn Heights.

    “Over the course of his long career he designed well over 4,000 residential and commercial buildings…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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