77 2nd Avenue
also 79 2nd Avenue | East Village | built 1903
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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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- 1903
George F. Pelham designs a six-story new-law tenement for Abraham Silverson with 21 apartments above shops
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Around 1903 Abraham Silverson has architect George F. Pelham design this six-story Renaissance Revival building of brick and limestone at 77 Second Avenue, also numbered 77-79. Built as a New Law tenement, it originally holds 21 families above ground-floor shops. Scrolled keystones, triangular and semicircular gables and a bracketed cornice decorate the facade, along with an ornamental wrought-iron fire escape.
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- 77 Second AvenueVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
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