Built in 1931. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.
From the record
“The Park Plaza Apartments were one of the first and most prominent Art Deco apartment buildings erected in the Bronx, New York City. The eight-story, polychromatic terra cotta embellished structure at 1005 Jerome Avenue and West 164th Street was designed by Horace Ginsberg and Marvin Fine and completed in 1931.”
Wikipedia article Park Plaza Apartments (Bronx), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 91 National Register listings published here for Bronx County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1931, by Horace Ginsbern.
National Register reference number.82003346- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Then and now
1891 to 1995
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18911995
Fires near this property
2,347 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2,347 fires within 5 miles of Park Plaza Apartments
between 2002 and 2020, burning about 652 acres in total. 125 started naturally. 126 were recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1630
Smoking
155
Recreation and ceremony
133
Arson/incendiarism
126
Natural
125
Debris and open burning
71
Equipment and vehicle use
52
Misuse of fire by a minor
38
Power generation/transmission/distribution
7
Railroad operations and maintenance
6
Other causes
4
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
15 workings within 5 miles of Park Plaza Apartments: 9 occurrences, 5 past producers, 1 plant.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Garnet, Iron, Palladium, Platinum. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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