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Protecting an Array of Gems in the Bronx
Published: March 25, 2010
IN the 1970s, when the Hunts Point section of the Bronx became associated with drugs, crime and prostitution, a group of bow-front row houses in the 800 block of Manida Street remained an oasis of tranquillity.
Now, some residents of the block would like to ensure that the houses remain intact. They are thinking of seeking landmark status. There are about 40 of the homes, which were built around the turn of the last century, though the borough’s historians have not determined an exact date. Semidetached two-families, they were built in a Flemish architectural style that would have been familiar to the Bronx’s overwhelmingly Germanic population at the time. The brick homes are a most unexpected gem in Hunts Point, a small peninsula separated from the rest of the South Bronx by the Bruckner Expressway. Properties there are mostly industrial buildings and low-income housing developments that in the last decades of the 20th century were pla …

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