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The mystery of the First Avenue tenement that had its top four floors sheared off

The first things I noticed about 2029 First Avenue were the decorative lintels above the second floor windows.

A street view of a gray building with a decorative façade, featuring multiple windows and a fire escape, with graffiti on the metal storefront shutters. Nearby, there are trees and other buildings in the background.

Attractively styled for window lintels on upper First Avenue, I figured this stubby holdout wedged beside two brick buildings between East 104th and 105th Streets must have been a former stable.

I imagined that those roll-down window gates had once been two stable doors used by the dri

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