182 Bleecker Street

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.

1861
The estate of Nicholas Low builds eight identical row houses at 172 to 186 Bleecker, including No. 182
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Around 1861 the estate of Nicholas Low put up a row of eight matching four-story brick houses, each with a peaked, dormered roof, on this stretch of Bleecker Street. No. 182 was one of them. The report says the stoops were probably taken off late in the 19th century so the ground floors could become shops, with several families living above.
“…eight identical four-story row houses with dormered peaked roofs at 172 to 186 Bleecker Street constructed c. 1861 for the estate of Nicholas Low…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1929
Architect Vincent M. Cajano raises the roofline of 182 Bleecker to a full fifth story
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In 1929 Vito Monaco, the owner, had architect Vincent M. Cajano replace the old peaked roof of 182 Bleecker with a full fifth floor. A plan to do the same to Nos. 180 and 182 had been filed in 1924 but apparently never carried out. The house had already been simplified around 1921, when the Hearth & Home Company probably removed the iron balconies shared along the row and simplified the lintels and sills, in keeping with the Colonial Revival style then popular.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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