253 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.

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1924
Architect Vincent Cajano raises 253 Bleecker to four stories for owner Cono Pizzino
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Built around 1829 as a house for Charles Gilmore, 253 Bleecker Street had become a mix of shop and homes by the 1850s. In 1924 Cono Pizzino, who had bought it three years earlier, hired architect Vincent M. Cajano to lift the three-story house and attic to four full floors. The plans called for a store, two apartments and a studio.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1930
Census records trace 253 Bleecker's households from white and Black families to Italian immigrants
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The census shows who lived at 253 Bleecker Street as the South Village changed. In 1880 two white families were enumerated there, and by 1900 one white and one African-American family shared the building. By 1920 it held two African-American families, and by 1930 the enumerators found three families headed by Italian immigrants.
“By 1900 the building was tenanted by one white and one African-American family and twenty years later it was home to two African-American families.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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