Gerard Plaza

815 Gerard Avenue | also 109 East 157th Street, 117 East 157th Street, 119 East 157th Street | Concourse Village | built 1928

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1928
Gerard Plaza rises at Gerard Avenue and East 157th Street with its name over the door
Gerard Plaza was built in 1928 for the Gerard Avenue & E 157 St. Corp. to designs by Charles Kreymborg & Son; many plans were filed for the site that year. The entry porch has Doric pilasters and a frieze carrying the building's name. Its storefronts, since replaced, may be original; they already appear in the city's tax photograph from about the 1940s.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1928
Ogee-arched wire-glass windows flank the entrance of Gerard Plaza
The beige-brick building has a rusticated base, brick panels with projecting headers, blind-arch corbelling and a modest molded cornice, which the report notes is original. The windows beside the main entrance hold triple ogee-arched panes of wire glass under segmental transoms. First-story windows south of the light court were filled in by the time of the 1940s tax photograph, and cell phone antennas now sit on the roofline.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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