23 Leroy Street

West Village | built 1890

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

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1890
William and Maria Urckermann build a Queen Anne tenement for 22 families
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Maria Urckermann and her husband William had this five-story tenement built in 1889-90 from designs by Charles Stegmayer. It was planned with two basement apartments and four on every floor above. The 1900 census recorded 21 families, many of them Irish, whose jobs included feathermaker, flowermaker, cigar maker, theater usher and restaurant manager.
“…constructed in 1889-90 for Maria Urckermann and her husband William…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1930
Four statue makers and ten Italian-born households live in the building by 1930
By the 1930 census nineteen families lived at 23 Leroy Street, and ten of them were headed by Italian immigrants, with four more second-generation Italian families and two Irish ones. Four residents worked as statue makers, and the rest included a linen embroiderer, an envelope-company file clerk, a confectionery salesman and a subway ticket agent.
“Residents' occupations included linen embroiderer, file clerk at an envelope company, statue maker (four), salesman at a confectionary store, and subway ticket agent…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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