243 Bleecker Street
West Village | built 1829
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1851
The 1851 directories list a locksmith and a possible baker at this Bleecker Street house
Built about 1829 for Jonathan Southwick, the house was a first-class brick store on insurance maps by the 1850s, when it carried the number 235 Bleecker. The 1851 directories list Washington Brockner, possibly a baker who lived here as well, and John Onderdonck, a locksmith. The Brockner family owned the building from 1845 until 1893.
“…possibly the bakery as well as residence of Washington Brockner who is listed in the 1851 directories along with John Onderdonck, a locksmith.”
- 1926
The Perniciaro brothers run a confectionery here and turn one apartment into a doctor's office
In 1921 owner Antonio Tripoli had architect Vincent M. Cajano raise the house from three stories to four to fit another family. Five years later Mose Perniciaro, who ran a confectionery with his brother Salvatore, bought the building and converted one apartment into a doctor's office. Salvatore Perniciaro still owned it in 1949, and it stayed in the family's hands until 1965.
- 1994
Baker Rocco Generoso adds a penthouse and rear extension above his ground-floor bakery
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By 1994 the owner was Rocco Generoso, who also ran the bakery on the ground floor. He built a penthouse and a rear extension that year, and the building then housed three families above the shop.
“In 1994, Rocco Generoso, the building's owner and proprietor of the bakery housed on the first story, added a penthouse and rear extension…”
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