71 2nd Avenue
East Village | built 1886
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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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- 1886
Adam Munch designs 71 Second Avenue for Benner & Zeller as one of a matched pair of Queen Anne tenements
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Benner & Zeller build number 71 around 1886 as a five-story brick tenement, the twin of number 73 next door, to designs by Adam Munch. The ground floor has cast-iron columns and a transom of wood and glass over the entry, and decorative brick and terra-cotta spandrels run between the windows. A rooftop addition went up in 2007, and the cornice had already been swapped for a plain brick parapet between about 1985 and 2012.
Further reading
- 71 Second AvenueVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
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