90 Bowery

also 155 Hester Street, 151 Hester Street, 153 Hester Street | Little Italy | built 1915

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

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1896
A four-story Bowery loft at 90-92 Bowery is listed as an eight-room lodging house
The building that stood at 90-92 Bowery before the present one was a four-story Italianate loft dating from 1873, described in the Bowery nomination as seven by seven bays. The nomination records that John Jacob Astor owned it in 1880. By 1896 it is listed as a lodging house with eight rooms, under the name Phoebe Garland.
Source: National Register nomination
1921
The name Palma House is attached to 90-92 Bowery in 1921, and a lodging house of 216 cubicles follows by 1944
By 1921 the lot at 90-92 Bowery carried the name Palma House. By 1944 the nomination lists a lodging house with 216 cubicles there, under the name Meyer Perlstein. The old loft on the lot was replaced in 2006 by a seven-story granite-faced building, which the nomination counts as non-contributing.
Source: National Register nomination

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