862 Manida Street

Hunts Point | built 1909

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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. 1908

    November 24

    Meehan's Manida Company files plans for the east-side row, designed by Daube & Kreymborg

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    After the George F. Johnson's Sons Company sold the east side of Manida Street to the Manida Company, another firm headed by James F. Meehan, a permit for 24 semi-detached houses there was filed on November 24, 1908. For this row Meehan commissioned the architects Daube & Kreymborg. The east-side row, including No. 862, was finished on June 15, 1909.

    “A New Building permit for the row of 24 semi-detached houses on the east side of the street was filed on November 24, 1908.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1909

    No. 862 pairs with No. 866 behind mirror-image fronts and a conical-roofed bay

    No. 862 is a two-family Renaissance Revival house sharing a party wall with No. 866, the two facades mirroring each other with their entrances side by side. Its doorway has a molded lintel on two scrolled brackets, and the rounded bay on its south side rises the full height of the house to a foliate bracketed cornice and a hipped parapet with a conical cap. The historic iron stoop railing survives.

    “A foliate bracketed cornice spans the facade and a hipped parapet with a conical…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 2020

    May 12

    Eleven speakers back landmarking the Manida Street block at a public hearing

    On May 12, 2020 the Landmarks Preservation Commission held its hearing on a Manida Street Historic District covering No. 862 and its neighbors. Eleven people testified in favor, among them Councilmember Rafael Salamanca and representatives of the New York Landmarks Conservancy, the Historic Districts Council and the Victorian Society of New York; one person spoke against. The Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association sent a letter of support.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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