205 entries transcribed from Rita’s two handwritten sheets. Where research has established an identification, the current name appears first and the original family wording is kept beneath it. Where it has not, the family wording stands alone. Evidence filters separate three different questions: whether the building is identified, whether Kelly’s involvement is corroborated, and what masonry scope is documented.
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Family list: “Presbyterian Hospital”
Kelly Masonry had a documented masonry contract on Presbyterian Hospital new construction and renovation during the hospital’s major 1980s modernization.
Manhattan, New York
Photo: Beyond My Ken · CC BY-SA 4.0
Family list: “Mt. Sinai Hospital”
Another perfect 'city replacing itself' story: eleven hospital buildings came down to create a radically different, light-filled medical complex.
Manhattan, New York
Photo: Eden, Janine and Jim · CC BY 2.0
Family list: “Mt. Sinai Medical Center”
Joseph appears to have worked on Mount Sinai twice during the same six-year megaproject.
Manhattan, New York
Photo: Eden, Janine and Jim · CC BY 2.0
Family list: “7 Hanover Square”
Joseph helped build a 1982 red-brick office tower on a block where archaeology uncovered colonial and early Federal New York—including property once associated with Captain William Kidd.
Financial District, Manhattan, New York
Photo: Tdorante10 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Family list: “Vietnam Memorial”
Joseph helped build a memorial whose wall carries soldiers' own letters home — then the plaza was rebuilt and rededicated in Lower Manhattan just weeks after 9/11.
Manhattan, New York
Photo: Ben Franske · CC BY-SA 4.0
Family list: “Stuyvesant High School”
Joseph’s 1990 project helped build Stuyvesant’s new Battery Park City home.
Manhattan, New York
Photo: CC BY-SA 4.0
Family list: “Jewish Museum”
Kelly’s 1990 entry lines up with the start of Kevin Roche’s major Gothic Revival expansion.
Manhattan, New York
Photo: Americasroof · CC BY-SA 3.0
Family list: “Woodside Houses”
One of the earliest entries on the list, showing Joseph working on the enormous postwar transformation of New York before the famous corporate and cultural projects appear.
Woodside, Queens, New York
Photo: Rayvxp · CC BY-SA 4.0
Family list: “Wilkes Barre VA Hospital”
Joseph was on this job while a new 475-bed veterans hospital rose outside Wilkes-Barre.
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Photo: Veterans Health Administration · U.S. Government work
Family list: “St. Albans Naval Hospital”
A former Queens golf course became one of the Navy's great wartime hospital campuses.
St. Albans, Queens, New York
Photo: Gottscho-Schleisner Collection · Library of Congress, no known copyright restrictions
Family list: “Owlshead Sewage Plant”
Joseph's 1950 sewage-plant job was part of the original construction of the Owls Head facility that still treats Brooklyn's wastewater today.
Brooklyn / New York City
Photo: NYC Water (NYC DEP) · Reuse terms not verified.
Family list: “Schlitz Brewery”
A 1951 Brooklyn brewery that survives inside a modern office conversion.
Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York
Photo: Commercial Observer · Reuse terms not verified.
Family list: “Rockaway Sewage Plant”
One of Joseph's least glamorous jobs may also be one of the most essential.
Rockaway, Queens, New York
Photo: Tdorante10 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Family list: “39th St and Madison Ave Office”
A 1951 Madison Avenue office job at the dawn of postwar glass-and-metal Midtown.
Midtown Manhattan, New York
Photo: 260 Madison Avenue · Reuse terms not verified.
Family list: “P.S. 200”
Joseph's 1952 P.S. 200 job appears to be the Queens school that opened the following year.
Pomonok / Flushing, Queens, New York
Photo: Tdorante10 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Family list: “Cooper Park Houses”
Joseph's 1952 entry lands exactly between groundbreaking and tenant move-in at this NYCHA complex.
East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York
Photo: Kidfly182 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Family list: “Islip State Hospital”
Joseph worked at Central Islip State Hospital during a major period of campus expansion.
Central Islip / Suffolk County, NY
Photo: James Attanasio · Public domain
Family list: “Power House”
A completely generic 'Power House — 1954' may finally have a place: Grahamsville, where major hydroelectric and New York City water-supply infrastructure was coming online that same year.
Grahamsville, Sullivan County, New York
Infrastructure context: the Neversink Reservoir and dam, not the powerhouse. Not confirmed as Joseph's project building.
Photo: Mr. Matté · CC BY-SA 4.0
Family list: “N. Y. Coliseum”
Joseph's list puts him on the New York Coliseum in 1955 — the same year a major section of the exhibition-hall formwork collapsed during construction.
Manhattan / New York City
Photo: Gottscho-Schleisner Collection · Public domain
Family list: “Marlboro Houses”
Joseph helped build a red-brick public-housing complex now considered architecturally significant.
Gravesend, Brooklyn, New York
Photo: Jim.henderson · Public domain
Family list: “Mutual Benefit Life, N.J.”
A 1957 headquarters that announced Newark was still betting on its downtown.
Newark, New Jersey
Photo: Hudconja · CC BY-SA 3.0
Family list: “P.A.A. Hangar - Idlewild”
Joseph was literally helping build Idlewild's new Jet Age 'aerial city.'
Queens, New York
The hangar itself, photographed in 1958. Reuse terms for this photograph are unclear; it is published with the source stated and will be removed on request.
Photo: Allan Van Wickler · Jon Proctor archive · Reuse terms not verified.
Family list: “660 Madison Ave.”
A J. Paul Getty office tower completed the same year Joseph worked there.
Manhattan, New York
Photo: Gottscho-Schleisner Collection · Public domain
Family list: “Telephone Building - 38 St.”
A corrected street number turns a dead end into a strong Murray Hill lead.
Manhattan / New York City
Photographed as the leading candidate site for the 1959 Telephone Building entry, not as the confirmed job. It is not the later 240 East 38th Street tower.
Photo: Tdorante10 · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Family list: “A.A. Arrivals Building”
Joseph’s 1959 entry falls during construction of American Airlines’ new terminal at Idlewild.
Queens / New York City
Photo: Glassybones · CC BY-SA 4.0
Family list: “Loyola Hall - Fordham U.”
Fordham expanded Loyola Hall with a seven-story, 100-room wing in 1959.
Bronx, New York
Photo: Drown Soda · CC BY-SA 4.0
Family list: “Chase Manhattan Bank”
A major postwar turning point: corporate Modernism replacing the fine-grained old Financial District — exactly the New York cycle the Fran Lebowitz story captures.
Manhattan, New York
Photo: Michael · CC BY 2.0
Family list: “Princess Gardens”
Princess Gardens was one of the residential buildings created by the same urban-renewal machine that produced Lincoln Center.
Lincoln Square, Manhattan, New York
Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain
Family list: “Toots Shor Restaurant”
In 1960, Joseph worked on the new home of one of New York’s most famous celebrity saloons.
Manhattan, New York
Toots Shor outside his new restaurant — the second location recorded on the list. The Library of Congress carries a rights advisory for this photograph.
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division · Reuse terms not verified.
Family list: “Telephone Building 54th and 10 Ave”
A 1961 job on one of Hell's Kitchen's giant windowless telephone fortresses.
Manhattan, New York
Photo: Brokkeli rob · CC BY-SA 4.0
Family list: “Convent Ave Telephone”
Joseph returned a 1906 telephone exchange to the modern network: another contractor's archive independently confirms a 1966 Convent Avenue Telephone Building project.
Hamilton Heights, Manhattan / New York City
Photo: Jim Henderson · CC0
Family list: “Dunwoodie”
The one-word entry 'Dunwoodie' almost certainly means the seminary's new recreation center.
Yonkers, New York
Photo: St. Joseph's Seminary · Reuse terms not verified.
Family list: “Collegiate School”
A 1967 construction job for one of the oldest schools in the United States.
Manhattan, New York
Photo: Jim.henderson · CC BY 4.0
Family list: “Manufacturers Hanover Bldg.”
Joseph helped build a 408,000-brick banking-computer fortress whose original 1966 DOB plans still survive in the Municipal Archives; today the same structure has been transformed into 1,320 homes.
Manhattan, New York
Photo: SnowFire · CC BY 4.0
Family list: “55 Wall Street”
Joseph worked at 55 Wall Street only two years after New York had formally declared the building a landmark.
Manhattan, New York
Photo: Kidfly182 · CC BY 4.0
Family list: “Doctors Office Building - Columbia Pres”
Columbia’s own archival language identifies the Herbert Irving Pavilion as the former Doctors’ Office Building, closely matching Rita’s wording.
Manhattan, New York
Photo: Beyond My Ken · CC BY-SA 4.0
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