37A Crosby Street

also 37B Crosby Street | SoHo | built 1900

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

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1823
Joseph Taylor has a house built on the Crosby Street lot that later holds a tenement
A house was built on this Crosby Street lot in 1822-23 for Joseph Taylor, when SoHo was still a district of private dwellings. The Landmarks Preservation Commission notes that the six-story tenement standing here today may have been an enlargement of that earlier house, completed in the 1850s.
“It may have been the enlargement of an earlier house on the lot that was built in 1822-23 for Joseph Taylor.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1857
A six-story Italianate tenement goes up as SoHo turns from homes to mixed use
Around 1856-57 a six-story brick tenement with Italianate details was built here for either John Delaplaine or Philemon H. Frost. It went up while SoHo was declining as a fashionable residential area and filling with tenements, factories, stables, saloons and gambling halls. A second brick apartment building sits at the back of the lot, out of sight from the street, and the upper floors still house residents.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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