99 Avenue A

East Village | built 1850

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

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1848
A Nicholas Baker leasehold on Astor land yields a four-story tenement at 99 Avenue A
John Jacob Astor owned the four lots numbered 33 to 36 on this stretch of Avenue A beginning in 1848. City tax records indicate that the building at 99 went up on lot 34 under the leasehold of Nicholas Baker, around 1848 to 1850. Rear extensions were added later, and the property was leased to a string of different people until it was sold in the twentieth century.
“Lots 33-36 were owned by John Jacob Astor beginning in 1848 and tax records indicate this building (on lot 34) was constructed under the leasehold of Nicholas Baker c. 1848-50.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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