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An article on the history of the Amalgamated Houses has the following description of the grocery: ” The first service that the neighborhood recognized it needed was easy access to food. A
Co-Op grocery store for fruits and vegetables, and other sundry items was arranged in a
community room that was set aside in the First Building. Although anyone could shop
there, this store was organized along a co-operative model. Each family that wished to
could buy a $10 share in what was eventually called the Amalgamated Housing
Consumers Society. With membership, came the opportunity for a rebate. Each member
shared the annual profits divided by the amount of goods each family purchased in the
previous year.” Alexandra Hans 2006/ cithiseerx.ist.psu.edu
Both the pharmacy and grocery were tucked into the apartment complex with entrances on Saxon Avenue. I assumed that anyone could shop there but the Cooperators, folks who lived in the Amalgamated houses, got a rebate of sorts at the end of the year.
Owner of that Pharmacy was a Mr Chavkin and I belive he became a partner with Mr. Drucker in the store on Segewick.
The 1927 postcard of the grocery store shows the original store which was located in Building One, the original, of the Amalgamated Houses on Saxon Avenue. Also nearby was the Amalgamated Pharmacy which, along with the grocery store, moved to the new building on Sedgwick and VCAW. I was a stock boy in the pharmacy in the late 1950’s and went on to a career in pharmacy.
What a great series of posts/pictures/maps! Nick the map you made with the sliders is a treasure! It ought to be prominently displayed on your web page for all to enjoy. I always wondered where exactly those “ancient” roadways went and now I know. It is a gem.
BTW, I might be one of the oldest and long tenured member of the KHS as I, and two friends, joined in 1956 when we were students at PS 95. Revered Tieck welcomed us in. Somehow he arranged for us to talk on NYC school radio, WNYE, about the society and a then current exhibit of before and after pictures arranged by Lou Garbus.
What an interesting discussion. I really appreciate the red notes and arrows on the first map. I wonder if that could be done on the submitted maps as I need help with the orientation. Thanks.
This was interesting to read. Where was Mosholu Hall? I wonder why they did not want to remain in Yonkers but then affiliated with NYC.
I don’t remember this building but it must have been part of the Seton complex. I remember wandering around in the empty hospital before it was demolished.
These pictures remind me that as a teenager in the late 1950s I remember finding a bone that was encased in rock? dried mud? south of the Van Cortlandt Putnam RR station and thought I had found some prehistoric creature. My high school biology teacher looked at it and said it was likely a chicken bone thus ending my career as a paleontologist. It was likely part of the garbage dump you describe.
