10 Gay Street

also 143 Waverly Place | West Village | built 1892

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1869
August 28
A fire breaks out in a stable behind 10 Gay Street
On August 28, 1869, a stable behind No. 10 Gay Street caught fire, causing an estimated $1,000 in damage. The report appears in a history of the crooked little street, then lined with modest houses, and it names the stable's owner as Henry Lairs. The apartment house now at No. 10 was not built until 1892.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1892
Edward L. Angell designs a five-story apartment house for J. H. Luhrs at 10 Gay Street
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Built in 1892 for J. H. Luhrs and designed by Edward L. Angell, this five-story brick building shares a uniform facade with the apartment houses on Waverly Place and extends back to wrap around onto Gay Street. Its ashlar first floor and sheet-metal cornice match its Waverly Place neighbors, whose entrances carry Italian Renaissance pediments.
“These apartment houses on Waverly Place have a uniform facade which also extends back to include the building at No. 10 Gay Street.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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