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The Chitte Building is an apartment building in New York City, New York. Located at 349 Amsterdam Avenue between 76th and 77th street, this five floor walk-up has twelve apartments and ground floor commercial space once occupied by the sports bar Time Out.
The building was built in 1873-1874 by Brescoll & Palestine Construction Co. In the early 1950s George and Ira Gershwin lived on the second floor, where they wrote a number of their most popular radio hits.
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