75 5th Avenue
also 77 5th Avenue | Union Square | built 1983
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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.
- 1903
A four-story house at 75 Fifth Avenue serves as part of the Kensington Hotel before demolition
Two four-story brick houses stood on this site by 1853, on former Thomas Burling farmland first divided into city lots in 1833. By 1903 the southern of the two, No. 75, formed part of the Kensington Hotel, which also took in other buildings at the corner of East 15th Street. The houses were demolished between 1951 and 1956, and plans for today's nineteen-story apartment tower were filed in 1983 for Sal Caiola.
“By 1903 the southernmost of these two houses (no. 75) was operated as part of the Kensington Hotel. Both buildings were torn down between 1951 and 1956.”
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