17 Leroy Street

also 18 Morton Street | West Village | built 1932

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

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1932
Emil Navone builds a three-story garage after a new school forces him to scale back a five-story plan
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Italian-born Emil Navone and his brother Joseph bought four lots on Morton and Leroy streets in 1926 for a public garage and repair shop, first planned at five stories by architect Matthew Del Gaudio. Then the Church of Our Lady of Pompeii School opened across Leroy Street in 1930, and zoning rules restricted garages near public schools. The garage, built in 1932, had three stories.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1935
The Leroy Street shop fronts of the Morton Street garage are replaced by a wall to meet zoning
Three years after the Navone garage was built, its Leroy Street storefronts were removed to comply with the zoning ordinance. A brick wall and steel casement windows took their place. Emil Navone sold the building in 1950, but later owners kept the name Enovan Realty Corp.
“The building was significantly altered just three years later with the removal of the Leroy Street storefronts, in order to comply with the zoning ordinance…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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