73 2nd Avenue

East Village | built 1886

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.

1925
The stoop comes off 73 Second Avenue and the ground floor drops to the sidewalk to make room for two shops
In 1925 the owners of this five-story tenement, built about 1886 as a twin to number 71, have the front stoop torn out. The entrance floor is lowered to sidewalk level so that two storefronts can be fitted in, under a building permit filed that year. Above the new shops the building keeps its original bracketed cornice and its terra-cotta and brick spandrels.
“The stoop was removed and the first story lowered to sidewalk level to allow for the installation of two storefronts (ALT 965-1925)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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