61 Delancey Street
also 105 Allen Street, 63 Delancey Street | Lower East Side | built 1900
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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.
- 1905
A basement fire at 105 Allen Street kills 20 tenement residents
A fire began before 4 a.m. in a basement restaurant at 105 Allen Street, on the Delancey Street corner, and spread to every floor of the tenement, where about 150 people lived. Twenty residents, all Jewish immigrants, died. Firemen blamed fire escapes cluttered with boxes and rubbish and openings between escapes that had been boarded over, and ten victims were found huddled beneath a closed roof hatch. After an investigation, inspectors of the Tenement House Department were reported to have failed to keep the escapes clear. A permit record posted in the blog's comments shows the lot was rebuilt in 1905, so the present building may not be the one that burned.
Source: Ephemeral New York
Further reading
- An Allen Street tenement fire rages in 1903Ephemeral New York
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