1 Minetta Street

also 205 Bleecker Street | Greenwich Village | built 1926

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1925
Sommerfeld & Sass design a flatiron-shaped apartment building on the Minetta Street triangle
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Irvy Realty Company had a six-story building with stores on the ground floor put up on the triangular lot at 1-3 Minetta Street, also known as 205-209 Bleecker Street, in 1925-26. Sommerfeld & Sass designed it in the Colonial Revival style, with a chamfered corner, multicolored brick walls and a stepped parapet. The Landmarks Preservation Commission classes it as a tenement with a commercial ground floor.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1942
German poet Mascha Kaleko moves into the Minetta Street building with her family
The German poet Mascha Kaleko lived in this building between 1942 and 1959 with her husband Chemjo Vinaver, a composer, music director and scholar, and her son Steven Vinaver, later a writer, director and lyricist. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's South Village report cites a historic plaque and New York address directories for 1930-1959. It also notes that part of the building housed a factory in the 1940s.
“From 1942 to 1959, the German poet Mascha Kaleko lived in the building with her husband Chemjo Vinaver, a composer, musical director, and scholar…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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