103 MacDougal Street
also 11 Minetta Street | Greenwich Village | built 1902
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1901
Michael Bernstein designs a seven-story tenement for Israel Lippmann, paired with 105 MacDougal Street
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Built in 1901-02 for the owner Israel Lippmann, this Renaissance Revival tenement has tan iron-spot brick walls and terra-cotta trim. Michael Bernstein designed it with a commercial ground floor as one of a pair of through-block buildings, the other being 105 MacDougal Street. The building is also numbered 11 Minetta Street.
- 1958
Two Minetta Street storefronts are merged into a single café called The Commons
In 1958 a café named The Commons opened on the Minetta Street side of 103 MacDougal Street. Alteration filings by the architect John J. Brady joined the Minetta Street stores of this tenement and its twin at 105 MacDougal Street into one space. The venue was later enlarged and renamed the Fat Black Pussy Cat.
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