255 Bleecker Street

also 36 Cornelia Street | West Village | built 1941

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

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1941
The McFarland family replaces the old buildings at 255 Bleecker with a one-story store block
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In 1941 the nineteenth-century structures that stood at the corner of Bleecker and Cornelia Streets were torn down. Architect E. Jerome O'Connor designed a one-story brick building of stores in their place for Grace, Martha and George McFarland. The Durando family bought it in 1953, and a realty company took title in 1958.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2003
He Gin Lee redesigns 255 Bleecker as a pagoda-roofed sushi restaurant
In 2003 the 1941 store building was remodeled by He Gin Lee as a sushi restaurant for Robert Viola and John Durando, owners through the 255-257 Bleecker St. Realty Corporation. The corner building gained a pagoda-style roof with a deep overhang, folding wood-and-glass doors, and piers resurfaced to resemble trees.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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