68 Second Avenue; 68-70 Second Avenue | Block : 445 | Lot #9

Building Date : 1907
Original Use : Residential/Commercial

Original Owner : Mayer Sugarman & Morris Adelstein
Original Architect : Edward A. Mayers

Description & Building Alterations

This six-story Renaissance Revival-style tenement building was constructed in 1907 by Mayer Sugarman and Morris Adelstein, designed by Edward A. Mayers. It was constructed for 25 families and stores on the ground and basement levels.

The facade features a bracketed and modillioned cornice, limestone window lintels and sills, beltcourses, raised brick quoins at the building corners, and quoined limestone window enframements on the second story. The storefront on the ground floor has been altered and infilled and the ground floor cornice has been removed. The roof cornice is original.

Block : 445 / Lot : 009 / Building Date : 1907 / Original Owner : Mayer Sugarman & Morris Adelstein / Original Use : Residential/Commercial / Original Architect : Edward A. Mayers

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