85 2nd Avenue

also 248 East 5th Street | East Village | built 1845

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

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  1. 1918

    Bruno Berger converts the ground floor of 85 Second Avenue to storefronts for the Michael Adrian Corp.

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    By the late 1800s the five-story row house at 85 Second Avenue had been given a neo-Grec makeover. In 1918 the architect Bruno Berger designed an alteration for owner Michael Adrian Corp. that raised the basement floor to sidewalk level and installed storefronts. The brick facade was later covered in cement stucco.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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