42 Leroy Street

West Village | built 1837

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

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1907
42 Leroy Street gets a flat roof and a basement shop in 1907 and later becomes a boarding house
Built in 1836-37 for Maria and Abraham Westervelt, the house held several tenants by 1851. In 1907 architect John Voelker removed its peaked roof, and the basement became commercial space until the 1960s. It survived the Seventh Avenue extension that razed its neighbors. From 1921 to 1925 the New York Congregational Home for the Aged owned it, and by the 1940s it was a boarding house run by Italian-born barber Guido Quarta.
“In 1907, the building was altered with the removal of the peaked roof and the addition of a third story (architect John Voelker)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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