232 East 6th Street

East Village | built 1929

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

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1929
Max Bierman has architect Jacob A. Britt design a six-story Colonial Revival apartment house at 232 East 6th Street
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The new-building filing for 232 East 6th Street (also numbered 232-234) dates to 1929, with Max Bierman as owner and Jacob A. Britt as architect. The six-story brick building has a rusticated ground floor, a round-arched entrance with a keystone, rondels and radiating brick surrounds at the top floor, and a terra-cotta cornice below a parapet topped with urns.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1929
Jacob Britt, a Russian-born Brooklyn architect, designs the 1929 apartment house at 232 East 6th Street
The Landmarks Preservation Commission's research found little about Jacob A. Britt, who designed this building. He was born in Russia around 1885, lived and worked in Brooklyn, and died in 1959. In the commission's district report, this six-story apartment house is the only building credited to him.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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