837 Manida Street

also 833 Manida Street | Hunts Point | built 1909

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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. 1908

    September

    James F. Meehan buys the west-side Manida Street lots, including No. 837's

    In September 1908 George F. Johnson sold 18 west-side Manida Street lots, among them the site of No. 837, to James F. Meehan, who headed the Meehan Building Company. Local papers said Meehan would start building two-family houses at once, and his permit for the row was filed on October 13. The sale came two months before the American Bank Note Company announced its move to Hunts Point.

    “In September 1908, two months prior to the announcement ... Johnson sold 18 lots on the west side of Manida Street to ... James F. Meehan…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1909

    Builder James F. Meehan, who designed No. 837, has over 100 Hunts Point houses underway

    In 1909 James F. Meehan, architect and developer of No. 837, was building more than 100 houses in Hunts Point. He had worked for the developer Henry Morgenthau before going out on his own, and he lived in the neighborhood, in a since-demolished villa at Hunts Point Road and Lafayette Avenue. He later served as Tenement House Commissioner under Mayor John Purroy Mitchel, and the New York Times called him a Hunts Point pioneer when he died in 1945.

    “In 1909, Meehan was in the process of building more than 100 houses in Hunts Point…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1920

    Two Egan sisters count notes at the American Bank Note plant while a third owns No. 837

    The 1920 census recorded three Irish sisters at No. 837. Elizabeth and Amid Egan worked as counters at the American Bank Note Company Printing Plant in Hunts Point, and their sister Mary Egan owned the house. In the 1920s many neighbors on the block were children of the first Eastern European immigrants, working as tailors, teachers, diamond dealers and leather merchants.

    “At 837 Manida Street, two Irish sisters, Elizabeth and Amid Egan, worked as counters at the plant, and their third sister Mary Egan owned their home.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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