56 Elizabeth Street

also 54 Elizabeth Street | Little Italy | built 1890

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

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  1. 1901

    Leopold Kaufman develops a seven-story tenement at 54-56 Elizabeth Street

    The Chinatown and Little Italy Historic District nomination describes 54-56 Elizabeth Street as a seven-story, twelve-bay tenement of brick and terracotta in the Renaissance Revival style. Leopold Kaufman developed it, and the firm of Schneider & Herter designed it in 1901. The listing places it on the east side of Elizabeth Street, between Canal and Hester Streets.

    Source: National Register nomination

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