178 West Houston Street

West Village | built 1898

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1938

    Salvatore DiMaggio takes the tenement from a savings bank in 1938, the year its storefront is altered

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    The Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank held this tenement in 1937, after earlier owners that included Constantino Graziano in the 1920s. In 1938 Salvatore DiMaggio acquired it, and a plan that year to alter a storefront removed the cornice and filled the space with brick. The Landmarks Commission thinks the brick banding above the first story dates from that work.

    “1937 Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank 1938 Salvatore DiMaggio…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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