115 Greenwich Avenue

also 119 Greenwich Avenue, 117 Greenwich Avenue, 1 Jane Street | West Village | built 1939

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.

1938
A late Federal corner house and two town houses are cleared for the Jane Street apartment building
The 1938-39 apartment house took the place of a late Federal house on the Jane Street corner, along with two town houses next to it along Greenwich Avenue. These earlier buildings were demolished to clear the lot.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1939
The Archbishopric of New York builds a six-story apartment house at 1-3 Jane Street
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Charles Kreymborg designed this plain brick building of 1938-39 for the Archbishopric of New York, with stores on the Greenwich Avenue side. Its main decoration is banded brickwork at the ground floor under a tall parapet.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1940
Folksingers gather at the Jane Street Chemists drugstore and luncheonette in the 1940s
A drugstore and luncheonette called Jane Street Chemists operated at the corner of this building in the 1940s. Folksingers hung out there, including Richard Dyer-Bennet and Millard Lampell. Lampell helped found the Almanac Singers and was later blacklisted in the McCarthy era.
Source: nysonglines.com

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