25 Leroy Street

West Village | built 1910

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

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1891
William Rankin builds a five-story Romanesque Revival tenement at 25 Leroy Street for 20 families
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In 1891 developer William Rankin put up a five-story tenement here, designed by James W. Cole, with four apartments on each floor. It went up as Greenwich Village's Federal and Greek Revival rowhouses were giving way to tenements for the growing immigrant working class. By the 1900 census, 22 families lived in the building, most of them Irish or German, working as milliners, lace repairers, domestic servants and silk-waist factory hands.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1935
A fire in 1935 forces the reframing of the roof and top floor at 25 Leroy Street
By 1930 the tenement's residents included Italian and Irish immigrant families alongside piano teachers, typists and a boiler repairer. Five years later a fire damaged the roof and the rear of the top story. Repairs required reframing both, and the original wooden staircase was replaced with an iron one.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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