288 Elizabeth Street

NoHo | built 1922

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1915

    Butcher Joseph Livoti buys the lot at 288 Elizabeth and runs a slaughterhouse there

    Before the present building, a one-story slaughterhouse and chicken market stood at 288 Elizabeth Street. Joseph Livoti, an Italian immigrant who arrived in 1902, bought the property in 1915 and ran the business there. This was the northern edge of Little Italy, which Italian immigrants and Italian-Americans dominated by that time. It was an earlier building on the site.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1922

    Louis A. Sheinart designs a Colonial Revival store and home for the Livoti family

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    In 1922 the Livotis replaced their one-story shop with a three-story Colonial Revival building at 288 Elizabeth Street, designed by architect Louis A. Sheinart. The ground floor held Joseph Livoti's shop and the family lived above. Livoti closed the shop in the early 1930s and a doctor, G. DeLeo, rented the ground floor for his practice. The family sold the building in 1946.

    “…constructed in 1922 for owners Joseph and Maria A. Livoti…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1929

    Houston Street's widening exposes the south wall of 288 Elizabeth

    Widening East Houston Street in the late 1920s meant tearing down the neighboring building at 286 Elizabeth Street, which left the south wall of number 288 exposed. In 1929 Livoti hired Sheinart again to cut doors and show windows into that wall, facing Houston Street. The building was then a chicken market and dwelling.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  4. 1940

    A bandstand goes up in front of 288 Elizabeth Street for the Feast of San Gennaro

    In 1940 a temporary bandstand was put up in front of 288 Elizabeth Street for the Feast of San Gennaro. The festival had begun in 1926, when Italians from the Naples region in this northeast corner of Little Italy first organized it for their city's patron saint.

    “…in 1926, they organized the first San Gennaro Festival for the patron saint of that city…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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