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80 Bowery | also 82 Bowery | Little Italy | built 1920

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.

1876
Elijah Sniffen oversees the 1876 reconstruction of the 80-84 Bowery loft row
Numbers 80 to 84 Bowery were built in 1869 to designs by W. E. Waring, with a mansard roof. A fire in 1876 damaged the row, and the architect Elijah Sniffen was responsible for its reconstruction. The National Register nomination for the Bowery district adds that the block occupies the site where the New Bowery Theatre stood in the 1850s.
Source: National Register nomination
1921
A record rent at 82 Bowery is read as a sign of Bowery business recovering
In 1921 the New York Times reported that space at 82 Bowery had rented for $2.50 per square foot, a record for rents. The National Register nomination notes that the figure was taken as a sign that the business climate on the Bowery was improving. The building held retail and factory uses.
“No. 82 set record for rents @ $2.50/sf (NYT April 1, 1921), taken as a sign of an improving business climate on the Bowery…”
Source: National Register nomination

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