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Yuengling Brewery Complex (6 items)

STATUS Threatened


DATE: 1905

STYLE: Industrial

backlog LANDMARKS UNDER CONSIDERATION

Yuengling Brewing Complex

Address: Amsterdam Avenue at West 127th & 128th Streets
Constructed: 1905
LPC Action: Calendared 1991
LPC Backlog Hearing: Removed from calendar without prejudice

This handsome 1905 complex speaks to NYC’s industrial and brewery past, which predated residential development in this part of West Harlem. Located along 10th Avenue (now Amsterdam Avenue) between 126th and 128th Streets, this complex was the home of the Bernheimer and Schwartz Brewery, with Yuengling Brewery first occupying the site. The complex was refrigerated and used for furs storage in the 1940s and 1950s, then receiving the affectionate appellation of the “Mink Building.”

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