117 7th Avenue South
also 123 7th Avenue South, 119 7th Avenue South, 125 7th Avenue South | West Village | built 1923
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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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- 1923
John Wyeth & Bro. build a low corner building at Seventh Avenue South and West 10th Street
The corner building at 115-125 Seventh Avenue South, since replaced by a newer structure on this lot, was put up in 1923 for John Wyeth & Bro., Inc., to designs by John E. Nitchie. By the time the Landmarks Preservation Commission surveyed the district in 1969, it held a large one-story nightclub, freshly remodeled in a "Gay Nineties" style with bracketed gas lamps on stone piers, gas globes along the parapet, leaded casement windows and a marquee at the corner door. The building also carried the address 170 West Tenth Street.
- 1937
Nick Rongetti opens a pie-shaped jazz steakhouse at Seventh Avenue South and 10th Street
Riverwalk Jazz, a Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound series, dates the opening of Nick Rongetti's club on this corner, in a building since demolished, to 1937. The pie-shaped room had a stained glass "N" in blue and gold, moose heads on the walls and sizzling steaks, and the stage banned music stands. Muggsy Spanier, Bud Freeman and Eddie Condon all led groups there, and the crowd included John Steinbeck, Joe DiMaggio, Willie Sutton and Jackie Gleason.
Source: riverwalkjazz.stanford.edu
- 1962
Banjoist Joel Schiavone buys Nick's and reopens it as Your Father's Mustache
Joel Schiavone, who played banjo with the Galvanized Jazz Band, bought Nick's in November 1962 and opened just before Christmas as Your Father's Mustache. He kept the bar, the dark oak frames and the columns, changing mainly the wall color to red. Sol Yaged, whose was the last band to play there as Nick's, asked for his banner, and Schiavone gave the framed jazz photographs to Nick Rongetti's son Jay. The club closed in late 1971, in a building that has since been demolished.
Source: riverwalkjazz.stanford.edu
- 1989
The derelict nightclub building vanishes almost overnight
After Your Father's Mustache and several derelict years, the wedge-shaped corner building that had housed Nick's was demolished and its plot cleared for development. Terry Miller's history of the Village, quoted by Bedford + Bowery, says it vanished almost overnight in January 1989. A Gourmet Garage store with a gym above it occupied the corner when Bedford + Bowery wrote in 2015.
Source: bedfordandbowery.com
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