240 Sullivan Street

also 100 West 3rd Street | Greenwich Village | built 1902

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

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1901
Schneider & Herter build a seven-story corner tenement for Leopold Kaufmann with four apartments per floor
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Architects Schneider & Herter designed a seven-story brick and terra-cotta tenement at the corner of West 3rd and Sullivan Streets, for owner Leopold Kaufmann. Built in 1901-02, it had stores at street level and apartments for four families on each floor above, and a fire escape from the start.
“…originally constructed with stores at the first story and apartments for four families per floor above. It had a fire escape at the time of construction.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1901
Village Preservation notes this corner tenement and its twin at 116 West 3rd Street are 95 feet long and 25 wide
In 2011 Village Preservation pointed out that 100 West 3rd Street, at Sullivan Street, and 116 West 3rd, at MacDougal Street, are architectural twins. Each is seven stories tall on a 100-foot lot, 95 feet long and 25 feet wide, with no elevator. The group explains that they went up just before the stricter Tenement House Act of 1901 took effect.
Source: Village Preservation

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