16 Bowery

Chinatown | built 1920

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1908
Bernstein & Bernstein build 16 Bowery as a restaurant, dwelling and lofts, later a lodging house
The four-story, three-bay Colonial Revival building of beige brick and stone was designed by Bernstein & Bernstein in 1908, with a restaurant, apartments and lofts. It has splayed lintels and corbelled brickwork. By the 1940s it had been converted to a lodging house, a use common on the Bowery, and the National Register nomination counts it among the few Colonial Revival buildings on the street.
“Built as a restaurant, dwelling and lofts, 16 Bowery (Bernstein & Bernstein 1908) was converted to a lodging house by the 1940s.”
Source: National Register nomination

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