831 Gerard Avenue

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.

1937
H. Herbert Lilien designs an eight-story Art Deco apartment house at Gerard Avenue and East 158th Street
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The 831 Gerard Avenue Realty Corp. put up this eight-story building in 1937 to plans by H. Herbert Lilien. Its beige brick is picked out with orange-brick headers and striated spandrels, its corner windows wrap around the building, and a red-marble and metal portico frames the entrance at the top of a two-step stoop. The parapet and corner spandrels have since been covered in metal, and the original steel casements have been replaced.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1937
Architect H. Herbert Lilien takes on 831 Gerard Avenue, his earliest of four buildings in the district
Lilien, born in New Jersey in 1898, studied at the School of Fine Arts and Engineering at Fawcett and had his own New York practice by 1923. The landmarks report credits him with four buildings in the Grand Concourse Historic District: 831 Gerard Avenue from 1937, 180 East 163rd Street and 1015 Grand Concourse from 1940-41, and 930 Grand Concourse from 1944-48.
“H. Herbert Lilien (1898-1982) 180 East 163 rd Street (1940-41) 831 Gerard Avenue (1937) 930 Grand Concourse (1944-48) 1015 Grand Concourse (1940-41)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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