53 Greenwich Avenue
West Village | built 1848
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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.
- 1848
A house of 1848 gets a new brick front as an apartment building
No. 53 Greenwich Avenue went up in 1848 as one of a row of brick houses on the avenue's west side, between Perry and Charles Streets. In the first half of the twentieth century it was remodeled as an apartment building with an entirely new front: steel casement windows, textured brickwork and a parapet laid in an all-over diamond pattern. A store and the apartment entrance share the street level.
“This 1848 house was remodeled as an apartment with a completely new front.”
Further reading
- Then & Now photos: 53 Greenwich AvenueVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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