859 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.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1909
No. 859 keeps its stained-glass transoms in every window
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No. 859 shares a party wall and cornice with No. 861. Its brick front has a low stone stoop with iron railings leading to a door framed by pilasters with stylized Corinthian capitals, and recessed spandrel panels separate the stories on its rounded southern bay. The house still has stained-glass transoms in all its windows, though the balustrade that once topped its cornice was removed.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1980
City tax photos show the Manida Street houses standing intact amid South Bronx arson
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In the 1970s and 1980s the blocks around Manida Street showed the effects of arson, abandonment and political neglect. City tax photographs of the block from the early 1980s nevertheless show its houses still mostly intact. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's report attributes much of the area's resilience in those years to advocates, community groups and grassroots organizations.
“New York City tax photos of the block from the early 1980s indicate that its houses stood mostly intact…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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