111 Christopher Street

West Village | built 1873

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1873
John Rubenstein builds a pair of five-story apartment houses at 111 and 113 Christopher Street
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William Jose designed Nos. 111 and 113 in 1873 for John Rubenstein as two early five-story apartment houses with stores at street level. The heavy bracketed cornice and arched pediment that survive at No. 113 show how the pair first looked. By 1969 the cornice at No. 111 had been removed and the wall behind it smooth-stuccoed to form a low parapet.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1978
The Leather Man, a leather and S&M shop on Christopher Street since 1965, moves to No. 111
The Leather Man, a leather and S&M shop, opened in 1965 at No. 85 Christopher Street and moved to No. 111 in 1978. According to the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project, it still operates at No. 111.
Source: NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project

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