520 East 5th Street | Block : 400 | Lot #16

Description & Building Alterations

This row of nine identical buildings (506-524 East 5th Street) was built for owner William B. Astor as investment properties in 1859-1860.  They each housed eight families above a ground-floor store.  These Italianate tenements had arched, brownstone lintels and simple, projecting sills and would have had raised stoop entrances.  No. 520 was not painted, so the brick and brownstone can be seen, but the projecting lintels have been shaved down and the original cornice has been lost. The ground-floor shops were replaced with apartments in 1938.