733 East 5th st near Ave D, North side. This building had a very bad fire and was subsequently torn down via use of a crane due to the structural damage and risk of demolishing it the normal way by hand.
Carved stone grotesque, 700 block of East 5th Street between Ave C and Ave D, North side. On the building photo you can see the hole left over the fire-escape in the center of the very top of the wall where this came from.

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