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169 West 83rd Street
169 West 83rd Street, New York, NY 10024
5 units
5 stories
1900 built
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About
The buildings were constructed in 1885 by one of the city’s most prominent developers, David H. King Jr.
When King acquired the West 83d Street property, the block was largely vacant and other West Side blocks were beginning to fill up with rowhouses for the prosperous. He had first retained Stanford White in 1880 to add a dining room to Kingscote, his Bellevue Avenue house in Newport, R.I., and he retained White’s firm again on the West 83d Street project.
The buildings were constructed in 1885 by one of the city’s most prominent developers, David H. King Jr.
When King acquired the West 83d Street property, the block was largely vacant and other West Side blocks were beginning to fill up with rowhouses for the prosperous. He had first retained Stanford White in 1880 to add a dining room to Kingscote, his Bellevue Avenue house in Newport, R.I., and he retained White’s firm again on the West 83d Street project. King served as contractor for the Washington Arch, the 1891 Madison Square Garden and the base of the Statue of Liberty.
His West 83d Street buildings were in fact ‘‘flats’‘ to New Yorkers of the time, of improved shading. Instead of two to four working-class families to a floor – the typical density -these buildings had floor-through apartments and were designed for professional and business people. One of these was Royal Cortissoz, the influential art critic for The New York Tribune, who lived at 169.
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- Development status
- Completed
- Developer
- David H. King Jr
- Architect
- McKim, Mead and White
- District
- Community District 107City Council District 6Police Precinct 20
- Building class
- C2Walk Up Apartments, Five to Six Families
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Location | Distance |
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at 86th St | 0.17 miles |
at 79th St | 0.24 miles |
at 81st St–Museum of Natural History | 0.31 miles |
at 86th St | 0.32 miles |
at 96th St | 0.52 miles |
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