910 Sheridan Avenue

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.

1945
Dillerwood Realty Co. builds a Moderne apartment house just after World War II
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Dillerwood Realty Co., Inc. put up this six-story Moderne apartment house in 1945-48 under permit NB 191-1945, with Israel L. Crausman as architect. It has an E-shaped plan, rounded corners with wrap-around windows, and a cast-stone entrance portico carrying the street address in bas-relief. The parapet is trimmed with roundels and crenellated brick.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2011
The Landmarks Preservation Commission cites the building as its example of the Moderne style
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In its 2011 report on the Grand Concourse Historic District, the Landmarks Preservation Commission chose this building to illustrate the Moderne style, which followed Art Deco and is found on ten buildings in the district. The style uses the same streamlined geometry with less ornament. Every Art Deco and Moderne building in the district went up during its second wave of building.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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