176 West Houston Street

West Village | built 1898

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1939
A bank foreclosure in 1935 ends one owner's run, and a storefront alteration in 1939 strips the cornice
After passing through several owners since 1898, this tenement was taken by foreclosure in 1935 by City Bank Farmers Trust. By 1939 a company called 23 Leroy Street Corporation owned it, and a plan that year to alter a storefront called for removing the cornice and replacing it with brick. The Landmarks Commission suspects the brick banding over the ground floor dates to that job. It calls the building otherwise remarkably intact.
“…the brick banding above the first story may date from 1939 when a plan to alter a storefront included the removal of the cornice…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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