Newport Hotel (83 Bowery)

83 Bowery | Chinatown | built 1910

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1890
A five-story loft at 83 Bowery goes up and later becomes the Ardmore and Newport lodging houses
Architect Albert Wagner designed the five-story brick building at 83 Bowery in 1890 for retail and light manufacturing. By 1914 it was a lodging house called the Ardmore, and by 1921 it operated as the Newport Hotel, one of the Lyons houses on the Bowery. The lodging house was upgraded in 1944.
Source: National Register nomination
2018
January 18
The city evacuates 83-85 Bowery tenants after inspectors find the main stairwell unstable
On January 18, 2018, the Department of Buildings ordered the 83-85 Bowery tenement cleared after engineers found the main stairwell structurally unstable, affecting at least 75 tenants. The inspection had been ordered by a state Supreme Court judge in a dispute between the tenant association and owner Joseph Betesh over rent stabilization. The Red Cross put residents in hotel rooms while city officials and elected offices worked on longer-term housing.
Source: thelodownny.com

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