41 2nd Avenue

also 36 East 2nd Street | East Village | built 1900

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.

1835
Builder Ephraim H. Wentworth erects eight houses at 22 to 36 East 2nd Street, and No. 36 is one of four survivors
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Around 1835 and 1836 the prolific builder Ephraim H. Wentworth put up eight two-and-a-half-story houses on East 2nd Street, numbers 22 to 36. Only four still stand, nos. 26, 28, 30 and 36, the last on the Second Avenue corner. The Landmarks Preservation Commission counts them among the significant clusters of early row houses that survive on East 2nd and East 3rd Streets.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1869
Julius Boekell designs a three-story rear extension at 39 Second Avenue for the corner house
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In 1869 the architect Julius Boekell designed a three-story Italianate extension to the rear of the old row house at 36 East 2nd Street, facing Second Avenue. This addition is now numbered 39 or 41 Second Avenue, and a break in the brickwork still marks where it joins the original house. The house itself began as a Greek Revival row house of three or three-and-a-half stories and was later raised to four.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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