364 East 8th Street | Block : 377 | Lot #14

Building Date : n/a
Original Use : Community Garden

Original Owner : NYC Parks and Recreation
Original Architect : n/a

Description & Building Alterations

A six-story Old Law tenement with ground floor stores once stood here. It was built in 1899 and designed by Schneider & Herter for Leopold Kaufmann. DOB records show that the building was still standing in 1964; however, by the late 1970s it was a vacant lot used as a garden.

It is now part of the community garden known as the Marty Celic Fireman’s Memorial Garden. The garden pays homage to the memory of Celic (1952-1977), a young member of Ladder Company 18 who lost his life fighting a fire in the tenement next door at nos. 358-360.

Click HERE to read more about this garden and the fire on our blog Off the Grid.

Block : 377 / Lot : 014 / Building Date : n/a / Original Owner : NYC Parks and Recreation/ Original Use :Community Garden/ Original Architect : n/a

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