273 West 10th Street

West Village | built 1910

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.

1878
Butcher Walter N. Wood has Robert Mook design a four-story tenement for him
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Walter N. Wood, a butcher with a shop at 340 Sixth Avenue, commissioned architect Robert Mook to design this four-story brick tenement in 1878-79. Wood's family kept the property until 1928. The building has a pressed-metal cornice with brackets and a slate stoop.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1936
A former Hunter College botany instructor owns the tenement as it is marketed to the middle class
Once the building passed through foreclosure in 1932, its apartments were marketed to middle-class tenants, and some appear in New York Times listings between 1930 and 1940. A 1938 ad offered two airy rooms with a kitchenette and an open fireplace for $35. From 1936 to 1949 the owner was Alice Isaacs Popper, who had taught botany at Hunter College from 1890 to 1910 and died in 1946.
“From 1936 to 1949, the building was owned by Alice Isaacs Popper (died 1946), a former botany instructor at Hunter College from 1890 to 1910.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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