638 East 12th Street
East Village | built 1958
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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.
- 1950
New York Iron Works shrinks the rear workshop at 638 East 12th Street
A five-story rear building goes up behind 638 East 12th Street by the 1880s and is used as a cabinetmaker's workshop. By the mid-1930s New York Iron Works, which has been in the front building since 1916, occupies both spaces. In 1950 the company removes the rear building's top floors and fills in the cellar, leaving it three stories tall.
Further reading
- 644 East 12th Street; 640-644 East 12th StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
- 638 East 12th Street; 638 Rear East 12 StVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
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