11 Charles Street
West Village | built 1848
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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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- 1925
James M. Cain, future crime novelist, lives here while writing for the New York World
From 1925 to 1927 the journalist James M. Cain made his home at 11 Charles Street. A Maryland native who had reported for Baltimore papers, where he knew H. L. Mencken, he wrote editorials for the New York World and later worked at The New Yorker. Three of his novels, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity and Mildred Pierce, became Hollywood films.
Source: Forgotten New York
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- Then & Now photos: 11 Charles StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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