868 Manida Street
Hunts Point | built 1909
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1909
Builders finish No. 868 and the rest of Manida Street's east-side row
No. 868 was among the 24 houses on the east side of Manida Street that James F. Meehan's Manida Company built to designs by Daube & Kreymborg under a permit filed in November 1908. By the fall of that year 42 two-family houses were under way on the block. The east-side row was completed on June 15, 1909, about six weeks before the west side.
- 1912
The New York Times shows off Manida Street as proof of Hunts Point's growth
In 1912 the New York Times ran a large illustrated feature on how quickly Hunts Point was developing, picturing both the American Bank Note Company printing plant and the houses of the Manida Street block where No. 868 stands. The landmarks commission notes that the plant and the houses together came to stand for the neighborhood's success as a mixed industrial and residential district.
“In 1912, the New York Times included a large spread extolling the rapid development in Hunts Point…”
- 2020
No. 868 shares a steep side-gabled parapet with its partner No. 870
No. 868 is joined by a party wall to No. 870, and a single foliate bracketed cornice and steeply pitched side-gabled parapet run across both fronts. The landmarks report of 2020 recorded that No. 868 had lost its decorative balustrade and had its stoop, railings and cheek walls replaced, along with its door and wood sash windows; a satellite dish sits at the second story.
“A foliate bracketed cornice and a steeply pitched side-gabled parapet span across the facades of 868 and 870 Manida Street.”
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