231 East 5th Street

East Village | built 1877

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

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1877
John Ross builds a five-story neo-Grec tenement at 231 East 5th Street for Patrick Levy
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A new building application filed in 1876 led to this five-story apartment house, completed around 1876-77 for owner Patrick Levy and built by John Ross. It is faced in brick with brownstone trim and shows neo-Grec details such as beveled lintels, projecting sills and a bracketed roof cornice with frieze panels. Cast-iron columns hold up the ground floor, which was built to take storefronts.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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