The Manhaset (Casa Amadeo)

850 Longwood Avenue | also 856 Longwood Avenue, 784 Prospect Avenue, 786 Prospect Avenue | Longwood | built 1925

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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. 1905

    James F. Meehan designs the Manhaset apartment house

    The Manhaset, designed by James F. Meehan and completed in 1905, is a six-story Neo-Renaissance apartment building with shops on its ground floor. Rusticated stone covers its lower two stories and red brick the floors above, and a projecting entrance porch is framed by Corinthian columns. Banana Kelly, a Longwood grassroots group that has restored local buildings since the 1970s, now manages it.

    “Designed by James F. Meehan, the apartment building was built in 1905 and named The Manhaset.”

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 1969

    Composer Mike Amadeo buys Casa Hernandez and renames the music store

    Siblings Victoria and Rafael Hernandez, who opened New York's first Puerto Rican-owned music store in 1927, founded Casa Hernandez in 1941. In 1969 the shop was sold to Miguel Angel "Mike" Amadeo, a musician and composer, who gave it the name Casa Amadeo, antigua Casa Hernandez. Amadeo, with nearly 300 songs performed by artists such as Celia Cruz, still owns and runs what is counted as the city's oldest continuously occupied Latin music store.

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 2001

    Casa Amadeo is added to the National Register of Historic Places

    In 2001 the National Register of Historic Places added Casa Amadeo to its rolls. Opened in 1941, the shop is counted as the longest continuously occupied Latin music store in the Bronx and all of New York City, and it sits in the Manhaset, a 1905 apartment building in Longwood.

    “It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.”

    Source: Wikipedia

  4. 2014

    The Longwood and Prospect corner is named Mike Amadeo Way

    In 2014 the corner of Longwood and Prospect Avenues received the name Miguel Angel "Mike" Amadeo Way. Born in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, Amadeo came to New York with his mother at 13 in 1947 and became known as a community historian. Earlier honors came from the National Puerto Rican Day Parade in 2008 and from the Bronx Council on the Arts in 2010.

    “In 2014, the corner of Logwood Avenue and Prospect Avenue was named Miguel Angel "Mike" Amadeo Way.”

    Source: Wikipedia

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