253 Centre Street

Little Italy | built 1900

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.

1816
A house on the lot at 253 Centre Street first appears in the tax rolls
Tax assessment records show a house on this lot from 1816, owned by John H. McIntosh. After several changes of ownership in the 1830s and 1840s the three-story brick building probably took its present Greek Revival look. By 1882 it had a store on the ground floor while the upper floors stayed residential until 1960, when they became offices. In 1890 the architect Louis Heinecke rebuilt the ground-floor front with cast-iron columns and show windows.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1887
A saloon, then Lyring's Assembly Rooms, occupy the ground floor on Centre Street
The ground floor of 253 Centre Street housed a saloon in 1887, and from 1897 to 1904 it was home to Lyring's Assembly Rooms. In the twentieth century the space turned to machinery dealers, including Capital Machinery in 1946, the Atomic Machinery Exchange in 1962 and the Emgo Machinery Co. in 1967.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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