McNulty's Tea & Coffee building

107 Christopher Street | also 109 Christopher Street | West Village | built 1904

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1895

    McNulty's Tea and Coffee, begun in 1895 as a general store at 125 Christopher Street, now sells from No. 109

    McNulty's was founded in 1895 by a retired judge as a general store at 125 Christopher Street, carrying perhaps one or two kinds of tea and coffee. It now trades from the ground floor of this building at 109 Christopher. The shop still has its glass jars, scoops, scales and burlap sacks, and sells well over a hundred varieties. It still offers a blend named for its founder, the Old Judge.

    Source: Village Preservation

  2. 1904

    Jacob Weinstein has Bernstein & Bernstein design a six-story apartment house at 107-109 Christopher Street

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    The firm of Bernstein & Bernstein designed this six-story apartment house for Jacob Weinstein in 1904. Bands of contrasting brick and arched terra cotta window heads gave it a fashionable look for the time. The cornice has since been removed, but the building keeps its ground-floor stores.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1980

    The Wong family takes over McNulty's Tea and Coffee after about half a dozen owners

    McNulty's had changed hands about half a dozen times by 1980, when the current owners' family took it over. According to Village Preservation, David Wong's brother had worked there part-time to pay for college and became interested in the trade. The Wongs then bought the business, and the family has run it since, widening the selection to coffees from every major producing country and teas of every major category.

    Source: Village Preservation

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