548 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
Street widening forces the rebuilding of this lot as a tenement under Daniel Devoe
In 1870 Laurens Street was widened by 25 feet on its west side and renamed South Fifth Avenue, and buildings along it were demolished or cut back to the new curb. Number 548 and its neighbor at 550 were not razed outright but were reworked that year, with Daniel M. Devoe named for both. The report calls the widening the first major opportunity for tenement building in the district.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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