62 Leroy Street
also 60 Leroy Street | West Village | built 1940
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1940
Israel Crausman designs 62-64 Leroy Street as a wedge-shaped apartment house in 1940
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The Boson Construction Corporation, a south Bronx builder, developed this six-story elevator building with six eleven-room apartments. Architect Israel Crausman kept ornament minimal, using stylized roundels, a stripped Classical door surround, clinker bricks and scattered fieldstones. Its wedge shape and curved east facade follow the lot left by the extension of Seventh Avenue South to Varick Street.
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