241 Bleecker Street

West Village | built 1829

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.

1829
William S. Ross has a Federal row house built that grows from three to four stories by 1885
William S. Ross had the brick row house built around 1829, and by the 1850s a store occupied its ground floor. The earliest alteration filing, from 1876, lists a dwelling and store of three stories under a peaked roof; nine years later the building had four stories and a flat roof. Its facade now carries Italianate and Neo-Grec ornament.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1964
A fire door is installed in the wall between 241 and 239 Bleecker, both owned by a moving company
In 1964 Mathews Express and Van Co. owned both 239 and 241 Bleecker Street, and a fire door was installed in the firewall between them. Earlier in the century the building had been a store and tenement for three families, and in 1945 the Balvo family ran New York Refrigerator and Radio from it. The moving firm took title in 1963.
“In 1964, a fire-door was installed in a firewall between 241 and its neighbor 239 both of which were owned at the time by Mathews Express and Van Co.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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