17 8th Avenue

West Village | built 1845

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

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1845
A three-story brick house with a ground-floor store joins the 1845 Eighth Avenue row
No. 17 is one of the nearly identical brick houses put up in 1845 along Eighth Avenue after the Towning estate was liquidated. Like its neighbors, it was planned with a store at street level and living quarters above, under a simple cornice with dentils. It keeps its muntined window sash, though the report found that a mix of signs above the storefronts detracted from the row.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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