540 LaGuardia Place

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

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1870
The building at 540 is effectively rebuilt after the widening of Laurens Street
The existing facade dates from alterations around 1870, when the building was effectively rebuilt after the street, then Laurens Street, was widened. It is a five-story brick tenement with a commercial ground floor. The architect and original owner are not recorded.
“Facade dates from alterations undertaken c. 1870 when the building was effectively rebuilt following the widening of what is now LaGuardia Place.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1970
A pottery studio and Chip Monck's lighting company work out of 540 LaGuardia Place in the 1970s
In the 1970s the building housed Judith Baldwin and the Baldwin Pottery Studio. The lighting designer and emcee Chip Monck, a leader in rock-concert lighting, also based his firm, Chipmonck Industries, there.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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