86 2nd Avenue

also 300 East 5th Street | East Village | built 1874

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

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1874
Jonathan A. Remer designs a five-story Italianate tenement for John McCullough at Second Avenue and East 5th Street
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The building at 86 Second Avenue, on the corner of East 5th Street, went up in 1874 to plans by Jonathan A. Remer for owner John McCullough. It was a five-story Italianate tenement of brick, trimmed with rusticated brownstone corner quoins, molded galvanized-iron window lintels with bracketed sills, and a modillioned cornice.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1874
A cafe opens on the ground floor of 86 Second Avenue, with the Wiener Cafe House there in the late 1800s
Village Preservation's building survey says the ground floor at Second Avenue and East 5th Street has held a cafe or restaurant since the tenement was built in 1874, and that the Wiener Cafe House occupied it in the late 19th century. The storefront was heavily altered in 1928: a new residential entrance was cut into the East 5th Street side, and the old entrance on that side became part of the storefront.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org

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