857 Manida Street

Hunts Point | built 1909

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

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1909
James F. Meehan builds No. 857 as the partner of No. 853 in the west-side row
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No. 857 is part of the row of 18 semi-detached two-family houses at 819 to 861 Manida Street, which Meehan both designed and developed in 1908-09 as the subway reached the Bronx. It shares a party wall and cornice with No. 853. A stone frame of paneled pilasters, scrolled brackets and a pedimented lintel with a festoon surrounds the door, and a banded cornice with ballflowers crowns the house.
“No. 857 Manida Street shares a party wall and cornice with 853 Manida Street.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1920
John Mafpel, an engraver at the American Bank Note plant, lives at No. 857
In the 1920s several residents of the block worked at the American Bank Note Company Printing Plant nearby in Hunts Point. At No. 857, John Mafpel worked at the plant as an engraver. By then many of the street's residents were first-generation Americans descended from Eastern European immigrants, and many owned their homes.
“At 857 Manida Street, John Mafpel worked as an engraver in the plant.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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