50 Carmine Street

West Village | built 1897

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.

1896
Paul R. Lewis designs a fifteen-family Romanesque and Renaissance Revival tenement for J.B. Canavotto
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Architect Paul R. Lewis designed the six-story building in 1896 for owner J.B. Canavotto, with a store at street level and apartments for fifteen families above. It was built between July 1896 and January 1897 in Roman iron-spot brick with brownstone trim. Developers were then replacing many single-family Village houses with such multiple dwellings.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1903
Bernstein & Bernstein enlarge the apartments at 50 Carmine Street; a restaurant moves in downstairs in 1967
Bernstein & Bernstein received the commission in 1903 to redesign the apartments, enlarging the rooms and lifting the level of the main entrance hall. The stoop was to be replaced with Wyoming bluestone with brass rails. In 1967 the ground story was altered to make room for a restaurant.
“In 1903, the firm of Bernstein & Bernstein was hired to redesign the layout of the apartments to increase the size of the rooms…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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