22 Leroy Street

West Village | built 1903

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

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1903
Builders Harris Friedman and Barnet Feinberg erect a 24-family tenement after the 1901 housing law
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Friedman, a German-born builder, and Feinberg, a Russian-born builder and contractor, developed this six-story building in 1903. Bernstein & Bernstein designed it as a twin of the one at 26-28 Leroy Street. It is one of the few tenements built in the area after the Tenement House Act of 1901, and it filled two 20-foot lots with four families on each floor.
“…represents one of a handful of tenements constructed in the area after the 1901 tenement house law…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1910
In 1910 the tenement houses Italian, Russian, French and American-born families; by 1930 all 23 are Italian
Nineteen families lived at 22-24 Leroy Street in the 1910 census, nine of them native-born and the others first- or second-generation immigrants, chiefly from Italy and Russia, with some from France, Romania and elsewhere. Some Italian-born boarders also shared their homes. By 1930 all 23 resident families were first- or second-generation Italian.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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