203 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.

1889
Charles Stegmayer designs a five-story yellow-brick tenement for John H. Starck
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The architect Charles Stegmayer drew up this Renaissance Revival tenement in 1889 for owner John H. Starck. It rises five stories in yellow brick and terra cotta, with a ground-floor storefront framed by cast-iron pilasters, rusticated brickwork at the second story and round-arched windows at the second and fifth floors.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1934
A tenement gains an oven and later a cellar bakery
The building went up as a tenement but probably took on mixed use after 1900, since an application to install an oven was filed in 1906. By 1934 the records list a bakery in the cellar along with two first-story stores. A tax photograph shows that the fire escape dates to about 1939.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1970
The painter Louis Harris keeps a studio and apartment at 203 Bleecker Street until his death in 1970
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Louis Harris, a painter, kept both a studio and a home at 203 Bleecker Street when he died in 1970. The New York Times ran his obituary on July 25, 1970, headed "Louis Harris, 67, Is Dead," and called him an oil and watercolor artist. The Landmarks Preservation Commission cites it as its source for his residence here.
“Louis Harris, a painter, had a studio and apartment at 203 Bleecker Street at the time of his death in 1970.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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