860 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
Daube & Kreymborg's No. 860 is finished as the partner of No. 858
Built in 1908-09 as one of 24 semi-detached houses designed by Daube & Kreymborg for James F. Meehan, No. 860 shares a party wall, a cornice on foliate brackets and a steep side-gabled parapet with No. 858. It still has its original iron stoop railing, but its metal-and-glass double door has been replaced.
“860 and 858 Manida Street share a foliate bracketed cornice that spans across their facades and a steeply pitched side-gabled parapet…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1912
The New York Times pictures the Manida Street row in a feature on Hunts Point's growth
In 1912 The New York Times ran a large spread on the fast development of Hunts Point, illustrated with pictures of the Manida Street houses and the American Bank Note Company building. The printing plant and the two-family houses on the 800 block, No. 860 among them, both came to stand for the neighborhood's success as a mixed area of homes and industry.
“In 1912, the New York Times included a large spread extolling the rapid development in Hunts Point…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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