35 Carmine Street

West Village | built 1877

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.

1877
Bavarian-born brickmason Peter Schaeffler builds 35 Carmine Street
Peter Schaeffler, a brickmason born in Bavaria who became a prolific builder of tenements, put up number 35 in 1877. Its neo-Grec lintels, sills and cornice are the main decoration, and it held stores below and four families on each of the floors above. Finished just before the 1879 tenement law, it has only two small square airshafts.
“…constructed in 1877 by Bavarian-born brickmason and prolific tenement builder Peter Schaeffler…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1880
Sixteen families live at 35 Carmine Street in 1880, mostly from Ireland, England and Germany
The 1880 census found sixteen families in the building, among them a hatter, a lawyer, a watch case maker, a bill collector and a laundry worker. Most were first- or second-generation immigrants from Ireland, England and Germany. By 1930 all fifteen families living there were Italian immigrants, among them a bakery proprietor, a cabinet maker and a longshoreman.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1959
A baker and a clothier share the ground floor of 35 Carmine Street in 1959
City directories list a hand laundry in the building in 1950, and in 1959 the baker A. Polichetti and the clothier Irving Saltzman. The storefront had already held a bakery in the early 1910s. Architect Sidney Daub oversaw the replacement of the shopfronts in 1939.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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