OLDEST TENEMENT ON THE UWS: “Remove horses, cows, sheep, and goats…” The oldest surviving multiple dwelling on the UWS is a tenement at 460 Amsterdam Avenue, built in 1877 under the original Tenement House law of 1867. This is the only surviving tenement in the district built under that law, which had only minimal requirements: a fire escape, the provision of at least one privy (bathroom) for every twenty (20) residents, and the elimination of horses, cows, sheep, and goats from the premises. As no interior toilet facilities were required, the likelihood is that a privy (bathroom) was probably originally in the back yard. This is a neo-Grec style building.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 14:16:19 +0000
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