35 Cornelia Street

West Village | built 1854

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.

1854
Grocer Carsten Engle builds a Greek Revival row house at 35 Cornelia Street
The row house at 35 Cornelia Street was probably built about 1854 for Carsten Engle, a grocer, on ground that had formerly been the back of the corner lot at Bleecker Street. Engle was still living there in 1880 with his son William, a printer.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1912
No. 35 Cornelia Street is a two-family house by 1912, with new windows cut in its rear wall
By 1912 the house at 35 Cornelia Street had become a two-family dwelling, and its rear wall was cut open for new windows; by 1992 it was a one-family house again. A separate tax lot was created for it in 2005; in 2006 it changed hands, and the new owner added a glass-and-aluminum bulkhead to the roof.
“By 1912, the building had been turned into a two -family dwelling ... It reverted to single -family use by 1992. In 2005 a separate tax lot was created…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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