1 9th Avenue

also 49 Gansevoort Street, 3 9th Avenue | West Village | built 1899

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1. 1849

   James Conkright builds a row of three houses at 3-7 Ninth Avenue on land held by the Astor-Wendel family

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   Around 1849 James Conkright, who paid the taxes on the lots, put up three rowhouses at what are now 3, 5 and 7 Ninth Avenue. The land had belonged since 1837 to John Gottlieb Mathias Wendel and his wife Elizabeth Astor, a sister of John Jacob Astor I, and their heirs kept it until 1943. Conkright's family ran a turpentine distillery nearby before 1852, and the 1851 directory lists a liquor dealer, Patrick Dunn, among the row's residents.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1887

   Widening Gansevoort Street in 1887 trims a bay off No. 3 Ninth Avenue and adds a storefront

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   When Gansevoort Street was widened in 1887, the south end of the rowhouse at 3 Ninth Avenue lost one bay and the building received a storefront. Even so, the 1890 census still recorded it as a single-family home, occupied by Fred Hanefel, while the other two houses in the row held several households each.

   “In 1887, when Gansevoort Street was widened, No. 3 was reduced in width by one bay on the south end, and received a storefront.”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 1965

   The Seven Arts Coffee Gallery is listed at 3 Ninth Avenue from 1965 to 1975

   City directories place the Seven Arts Coffee Gallery at No. 3 from 1965 to 1975, in a former rowhouse that had been reused by produce dealers for decades. The Mastellone firm, L. Mastellone & Co., sold produce from the address from 1936 to 1955, and Valentine Garcia was listed as a produce dealer there in 1970.

   “No. 3: John Black, fruit (1929); Guiseppe Mastellone/ L. Mastellone & Co., produce (1936-55); Seven Arts Coffee Gallery (1965-75)…”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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