98 Bowery

Little Italy | built 1920

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

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1910
Upper floors of 98 Bowery become a lodging house in 1910
The five-story brick loft at 98 Bowery went up in 1855 in the Italianate style, with stores and lofts. According to the Bowery Historic District nomination, its upper stories were converted to a lodging house in 1910.
Source: National Register nomination
1969
Artists convert the old lodging house at 98 Bowery into live-work lofts in 1969
In 1969 the upper floors of 98 Bowery, which had been a lodging house in the years between, were converted into artists' live-work lofts. The Bowery Historic District nomination pairs it with the Alabama Hotel at 219-221 Bowery, converted to artists' studios in 1967. Both followed the 1964 addition of Article 7-B to the state Multiple Dwelling Law, which legalized artist live-work space in loft buildings.
“In 1969, the upper floors of an Italianate loft building dating to 1855 at 98 Bowery, which had been a lodging house in intervening years, was similarly converted.”
Source: National Register nomination

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