21 8th Avenue

West Village | built 1845

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

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1845
One of a near-identical row of three-story Eighth Avenue houses from 1845
No. 21 belongs to a blockfront of practically identical brick houses built in 1845 when the Townley estate was sold off. Each was planned with a store at street level and a dwelling above, topped by a simple cornice. Nos. 17 through 29 kept their muntined window sash, though the report judges the motley signs over the shopfronts a detraction.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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