Arturo's
106 West Houston Street | also 164 Thompson Street | Greenwich Village | built 1881
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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.
- 1881
William E. Waring designs 106 West Houston Street for Henry Thole
In 1881 investors Louis P. Dexheimer and Henry Thole hired tenement architect William E. Waring to design a matched pair of buildings, each with a store below and flats above, at 104 and 106 West Houston Street on the Thompson Street corner. No. 106 was Thole's, with two apartments per floor and a residential entrance around the corner at 164 Thompson Street. Waring mixed Italianate details with a neo-Grec cornice crowned with pediments, anthemions and urns.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1893
A resident known as "Funeral Wells" is arrested as a suspicious character
James Hayden, a former bookkeeper turned pickpocket, lived in the building in 1893 and was known to police as "Funeral Wells." On October 9 he and three other men were loitering at Sixth Avenue and 28th Street when two detectives arrested the group as suspicious characters. Hayden's photograph was already in the Rogues' Gallery.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1922
A stabbed tailor staggers into the corner drugstore
On the night of August 8, 1922, Alfred Form, a 30-year-old tailor, stumbled into the drugstore on the ground floor and collapsed with stab wounds to his abdomen and left hand. He was taken unconscious to St. Vincent's Hospital. Detectives suspected the attack grew out of labor troubles in the clothing business.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1927
A boy watching a dice game in the back yard is shot
On September 4, 1927, 15-year-old Tony Valeati, whose family lived in the building, was watching a dice game in the rear yard when two gamblers quarreled. One drew a pistol and Tony was hit in the left shoulder. Tony's wound turned out to be minor, and he got treatment at St. Vincent's Hospital while the gamblers scattered.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1964
Arthur Giunta's cafe, La Casa Di Arturo, is refused a beer license
In 1964 Arthur Giunta, who ran the ground-floor cafe La Casa Di Arturo, was refused a beer license because of a 1959 misdemeanor plea and because St. Anthony's School stood within 200 feet. The space had been a pharmacy for decades, then a pastry and gelato shop in the Prohibition years, before becoming a cafe by the early 1960s. The name later shortened to Arturo's, a spot known for brick-oven pizza and live jazz, which has since spread into the twin building next door.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- William E. Waring's 1881 106 West Houston StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
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