The Eight-Sixty

860 Grand Conc | also 161 East 159th Street, 860 Grand Concourse | Concourse Village | built 1941

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.

1940
Charles Kreymborg designs the Eight-Sixty as an Art Deco apartment house for Bio Associates
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Bio Associates, Inc. filed plans in 1940 for this six-story apartment house at the corner of East 159th Street, finished in 1941 to a design by Charles Kreymborg. Its beige brick walls are trimmed with orange terra-cotta bands around the windows and along the stepped parapet, the corners wrap around with windows, and the main door sits in a pink-marble portico with Art Deco metal trim. The building carries the name the Eight-Sixty.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1940
Bronx-raised architect Charles Kreymborg designs 860 Grand Concourse on his own
Charles Kreymborg was born in New York City and grew up in the Bronx, learning to draw through a drawing-supplies company and an apprenticeship with architect Charles Stegmeyer rather than at a school. He had a practice by 1900, later took his son Charles H. Kreymborg into partnership, and his firm became one of the Bronx's chief designers, with ten apartment houses in the Grand Concourse district. The 1940-41 building at 860 Grand Concourse is one he designed on his own.
“The elder Kreymborg designed the apartment houses at 860 Grand Concourse, 917 Sheridan Avenue and 923 Walton Avenue…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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