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Is there any published information on how zoning laws allowed this monstrosity to be built in a low-rise residential neighborhood where it’s totally out of scale with its surroundings?
Also in Kingsbridge maybe three years ago (sorry to be so imprecise on the date in a history group) a fire destroyed several businesses on Bailey Ave. and W. 238th St. including the deli on the corner, Tilila Bar & Grill, a small mom and pop Dominican restaurant, and a Chinese takeout place where the fire started. The laundromat and Khalle were undamaged.
I was interested to see the tax authority photos. I learned about this trove in a book I read last year, Urban Legends: The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin by Peter L’Official (Harvard UP, 2020). The city had photos taken of every single address in NYC for property tax purposes in the 1940s and 1980s and still keeps them on file. L’Official used the 1980s photos to give an idea of the physical decay in the South Bronx during that time in his study of artists that incorporated imagery of that place in their art.
