33 Carmine Street

also 31 Carmine Street | West Village | built 1859

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

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1859
33 Carmine Street goes up around 1859 as one of three narrow tenements built by Lawrence Van Wart
Around 1859 landowner Lawrence Van Wart built this tenement, now 33 Carmine Street, together with its neighbors at 31 and 31½, and each of the three was planned for two families per floor above ground-floor stores. They went up as Federal and Greek Revival row houses in the Village were being replaced by housing for working-class and immigrant families. Built twenty years before the 1879 tenement law, they have no air shafts. Van Wart later developed 37 Carmine Street next door.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1935
Architect Richard Shutkind joins 31½ and 33 Carmine Street into one building
In 1935 the two adjoining tenements at 31½ and 33 Carmine Street were merged into a single building to the plans of architect Richard Shutkind. City directories list a meat and provision company at number 33 in 1935 and a window-cleaning firm in 1950, and by 1965 the ground-story spaces had been converted to eating and drinking places. The Italianate front, with cast-iron lintels and sills, has otherwise stayed much as built.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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