237 East 12th Street
East Village | built 1900
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1878
W. Wiener commissions a five-story Italianate brownstone from John M. Forster
Architect John M. Forster designs the five-story brownstone for owner W. Wiener. It has an Italianate cornice and a raised-stoop entrance, and it houses apartments, possibly as few as one per floor.
- 1940
The building becomes a single-room-occupancy hotel
In 1940 the building is converted from apartments into a single-room-occupancy hotel with six rooms per floor. Village Preservation sees the change as a sign of the neighborhood's decline.
- 1966
By 1966 the building is converted back into apartments
By 1966 the single-room-occupancy hotel has been turned back into an apartment building with two apartments per floor. The change reverses the 1940 conversion, which had divided each floor into six rooms.
Further reading
- 237 East 12th StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
- 193 Second Avenue; 193-195 Second Avenue; 239-241 East 12th StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
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