114 Christopher Street

also 116 Christopher Street | West Village | built 1908

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

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1908
Charles B. Meyers designs a six-story apartment house at 114-116 Christopher Street
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Charles B. Meyers designed this six-story brick apartment house in 1908 for J. Lipman and S. Root. It has stores on the ground floor, keystoned lintels, and a plain brick wall rising to a bracketed cornice. Meyers used a similar design four years later at Nos. 100-104 on the same block.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1972
Ty's, a self-described man's bar, opens at 114 Christopher Street
According to the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project, Ty's has operated at 114 Christopher Street since 1972 and describes itself as a "man's bar." The project's page includes a photograph of the exterior of the bar during the Gay Pride Street Fair of June 1983, taken by Rich Wandel.
Source: NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project

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