Leviton Building

276 Greenpoint Avenue | also 236 Greenpoint Avenue | Greenpoint | built 1931

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

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1906
Evser and Isidor Leviton found the company whose name this Greenpoint Avenue factory carries
Greenpointers traces the Leviton Company to 1906, when Evser Leviton and his son Isidor founded it. They started out making brass mantle tips for natural gas lights in Manhattan, selling them off a pushcart on the Lower East Side's Bowery. The Leviton Building stands on Greenpoint Avenue just off McGuinness Boulevard, though the company is long gone.
Source: greenpointers.com
1936
Leviton buys the buildings on Greenpoint Avenue, demolishes them and builds a large new building
Forgotten New York writes that in 1936 the company acquired the buildings along Greenpoint Avenue, tore them down and put up the large building that stands there today. Terra cotta signs reading Leviton in blue and orange still run along its roofline. The complex stretches across three intersecting streets between Jewel and Newel.
Source: Forgotten New York
2021
May
The former Leviton works houses manufacturing businesses behind a guarded entrance on Diamond Street
Kevin Walsh of Forgotten New York wrote in May 2021 that the Leviton works was one of his favorite buildings in Greenpoint. The company has long since left, but its signs remain. He notes that Diamond Street has been demapped and now serves as the guarded entrance to the complex, which houses a number of manufacturing concerns.
Source: Forgotten New York

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