Gioiello Tenement

90 Elizabeth Street | Little Italy | built 1900

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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.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1903

    Michael Voccoli develops a tenement with Gioiello, Italian for jewel, set in its cornice

    The six-story brick and terracotta tenement at 90 Elizabeth Street was developed by Michael Voccoli and completed in 1903. Its designers are given in the Chinatown and Little Italy nomination as either Horenburger & Straub or Neville & Bagge. The word Gioiello, Italian for jewel, is embossed in the cornice.

    “GIOIELLO (means “jewel” in Italian) embossed in cornice. Developed by Michael Voccoli.”

    Source: National Register nomination

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