The Greystone

From the New York Public Library Digital Collection

"1913 Supplement to the World's New York Apartment House Album

No. 127 W. 82D STREET; Between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues

High class modern fireproof apartment house in excellent neighborhood, within block and a half of Central Park. Sixth Avenue and Ninth Avenue Elevated station at corner of Eighty-first Street and Columbus Avenue, Subway stations at Eighty-sixth Street and Seventy-ninth Street and Broadway. The location, although private, is yet convenient to elevated, subway and surface cars. The apartments are arranged in keeping with good taste with a view to convience and comfort. The vestibule and entrance halls are finished in rich imported marble. Parlors, chambers and private halls are finished in white enamel wood-work. Dining rooms in oak. Abundance of closet room. Parquet floors, etc. On the roof is a laundry provided with steam drying racks in addition to the ample roof space for open air drying."

From the New York Public Library Digital Collection

No. 127 W. 82D STREET; Between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues

From the NYC Department of Records & Information Services

Manhattan 1940s Tax Photos. Date: 1939-1941

These images, known as “tax” photographs, were taken by the city’s property tax office in an effort to modernize the tax assessment process. The collection consists of nearly every building and house of the five boroughs, with the exception of tax-exempt properties. New York used the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to fund the project and hire photographers, though the individual photographers who contributed these photos have never been identified by name. Until digitization, the collection had only been available to view on microfilm at the Municipal Archives in Manhattan.

From the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission

Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District Designation Report Volume I (page 1394 of the pdf)