47 King Street

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

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1855
June
Working-class families fill the wooden house behind 49 King Street
Behind No. 49 stood a small wooden house, reached by a passage beside the front house, which filled with working-class families in the 1850s. In June 1855 one tenant advertised as a young woman seeking housework and gave her address as the rear of 49 King. Similar notices ran for years, showing how precarious life was for unskilled workers there.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1875
January
Cleary files plans to add a story and a 25-foot extension to the rear building at No. 49
In January 1875 landlord William Cleary filed plans for the back building at No. 49: an extra story, a 25-foot-wide extension and alterations to the front, budgeted at $2,000. He had rebuilt the rear of No. 47 as a tenement five years earlier and kept both properties as rooming houses.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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