43 Carmine Street

also 41 Carmine Street | West Village | built 1874

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1880

    Fifty-two families live in 39, 41 and 43 Carmine Street in 1880, a mix of Irish and German households

    The 1880 census counted 52 families in these three tenements, only eight of them native-born. Sixteen families each came from Ireland and Germany, and others from Denmark, Scotland, England and France. Residents included a mattress maker, an apprentice to a silversmith, a bag maker, a governess and a flag maker.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1930

    By 1930 most families in 39-43 Carmine Street are Italian, among them an artist and a community-house social worker

    The 1930 census counted 35 families in the three tenements, 26 of them from Italy. Residents included a neckwear salesman, an artist, a razor sharpener, a janitress and a social worker at a community house. City directories list an Experienced Hand Laundry in 1929 and 1935, then Palm Beach Cakes and Mada Displays Associates in 1950.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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