Bleecker Street Pastry Shop building

245 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.

1850
A book dealer owns and lives in the house, with a carpenter as his tenant
Jonathan Southwick built the house around 1829, and by the 1850s Abraham Maze, a book dealer, owned and occupied it. His tenant was George Younger, a carpenter. Maze had bought the property in 1845, and the Herz family took it over in 1879. By 1885 the alteration dockets record a bakery on the premises.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1926
Antonio Musa and Fiorentino Dellarovere raise the building a floor and run the Bleecker Street Pastry Shop
In 1926 architect Vincent M. Cajano enlarged the building to four full stories for owners Antonio T. Musa and Fiorentino Dellarovere. The two men ran the Bleecker Street Pastry Shop on the ground floor, and it was still operating in 1993. The stepped brick parapet may date from the same 1926 work.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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