159 Second Avenue Building Date : 1901 Original Use : Residential/Commercial Original Owner : Leopold Kaufman Original Architect : Schneider & Herter Description & Building Alterations This seven story brick Old-Law tenement was designed by Schneider & Herter in 1901, just before the tenement law changed, to house 20 families over ground-floor shops. The windows at the third story are arched. Other architectural details include engaged columns, scrolled keystones, and dentiled and bracketed continuous sills at the fourth and sixth story windows. The historic cornice (as seen in the 1980s tax photo) has been removed.