73 East 2nd Street
East Village | built 1871
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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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- 1871
A slaughterhouse on the lot gives way to Charles Grissler's five-story tenement
Before the present building, the lot at 73 East 2nd Street held a slaughterhouse, an earlier building on the site. In 1871 Charles Grissler replaced it with a five-story brick tenement designed by William E. Waring, who had already built a very similar one next door.
- 1871
Waring completes an Italianate tenement with a brownstone ground floor and arched parapet
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William E. Waring designed the 1871 tenement in cooperation with its owner, Charles Grissler, and in a style very like the neighboring building. It has a brownstone first floor, arched window lintels, bracketed sills and a bracketed cornice with a curved center piece rising above an arched parapet.
Further reading
- 73 East 2nd StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
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