Conservative Synagogue of Fifth Avenue

11 East 11th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1898

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.

1852
Lawyer George Wood builds a carriage house behind his Fifth Avenue mansion
Wood set the carriage house back from the street, leaving a front yard where horses could be hitched. Within a few decades it had passed out of private use, and once cars replaced horses in the neighborhood it became a garage.
Source: Ephemeral New York
1867
July 20
Police raid a brothel operating inside the former stable
Officers arrested five women and two men after finding the building had been converted into a house of prostitution, a sign of how far the once-private carriage house had drifted from its original use.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1921
Architect C. F. Winkleman turns the garage into a Moorish-style residence
The roughly $10,000 conversion gave the two-story structure a Moorish-influenced design and added a formal front garden, an unusual feature for downtown Manhattan.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1960
Congregation Etz Chaim buys the house and becomes a Fifth Avenue synagogue
The congregation, formed the previous year, purchased the former stable-turned-residence as its permanent home and renamed itself the Conservative Synagogue of Fifth Avenue.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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