74 2nd Avenue

East Village | built 1929

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.

1926
Loew's files plans for its own theater at 74 Second Avenue, then buys the Commodore farther up the avenue instead
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In 1926 Loew's Inc. files plans with the city to build a movie house on this lot at 74 Second Avenue. The company changes course and takes over the Commodore Theatre at 105 Second Avenue, a 2,800-seat house designed by Harrison G. Wiseman and finished in 1925-26, which had briefly been run by the Greater M. & S. circuit. Loew's then ran the Commodore as the flagship of its neighborhood theaters.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1929
Loew's Realty razes a tenement and Gronenberg & Leuchtag build a Medieval Revival apartment house
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In 1929 a four-story brick tenement with a store on the ground floor is torn down by Loew's Realty Co. Its replacement, designed by Gronenberg & Leuchtag for an owner called 99 East 4th Street, Inc., is also four stories but in a Medieval Revival style. Tapestry brickwork, pointed-arched terra-cotta and brick door frames and a crenellated parapet mark the facade.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org

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