838 Manida Street
Hunts Point | built 1909
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1907
George F. Johnson's Sons buys the Hunts Point land where No. 838 later rises
The New York Times called George F. Johnson's Sons the borough's pioneer two-family-house builders, and in November 1907 the firm bought upward of 400 Hunts Point lots. The purchase took in the future Manida Street houses and 123 lots later sold to the American Bank Note Company for its printing plant. In 1908 Johnson sold the east-side Manida Street lots to the Manida Company, headed by James F. Meehan.
“In November 1907, the George F. Johnson's Sons Company ... acquired more than 400 lots for development in Hunts Point…”
- 1909
No. 838 keeps its original glass-and-metal door and iron stoop railings
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Designed by Daube & Kreymborg and built in 1908-09, No. 838 is paired with No. 840; the two share a hipped parapet, and each has a conical roof over its rounded front bay. No. 838 still has its original iron stoop railings and its old double-leaf door of glass and metal, along with a molded door surround whose lintel sits on two scrolled brackets.
- 2020
Eleven speakers support landmark status for No. 838's block at a public hearing
At a public hearing on May 12, 2020, the Landmarks Preservation Commission took testimony on making the Manida Street Historic District, which includes No. 838, a city landmark. Eleven people spoke in favor, among them Councilmember Rafael Salamanca and representatives of the New York Landmarks Conservancy and the Historic Districts Council. One person spoke against, and the Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association sent a letter of support.
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