15 East 16th Street
also 17 East 16th Street | Union Square | built 1909
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1908
Schwartz & Gross design a twelve-story loft building for Kurzrock & Heins, replacing two rowhouses
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The firm Schwartz & Gross, who also designed apartment houses, drew up this fifty-foot-wide building in 1908 for the owners Kurzrock & Heins. It displaced two five-story brick rowhouses. Tenants included Richard Burns, a glove company founded in 1883, along with a music supply firm, a diamond dealer, dressmakers and furriers.
“Tenants included Richard Burns, a glove concern founded in 1883, a music supply company and a diamond dealer…”
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