The Isaac Labagh House

12 East 11th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1852

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1852

    James Gallatin builds two Italianate houses on East 11th Street, and Isaac Labagh takes the western one

    In 1852 banker James Gallatin, who already lived on the block, built two identical speculative houses near Fifth Avenue. They were 21 feet wide, faced in red brick, and rose four stories above a brownstone basement. The western house, then 52 East 11th Street and renumbered 12 in 1868, went to wholesale grocery partner Isaac Labagh, who lived there with his wife Maria Louise and their two children until selling in 1866.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1895

    Tenant Dr. Charles Remsen's family gives its name to a Long Island village, Remsenburg

    Dr. Charles Remsen, whose grandfather had been Thomas Jefferson's private secretary, leased this house by 1890 and lived here with his wife Lilian and two sons. That year the family acquired a summer home at Speonk, near Southampton. In 1895, after the Remsens built a church there, the citizens renamed the village Remsenburg.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1919

    June 14

    Burglars lower a 100-pound jewelry safe from a bedroom window and the rope snaps

    While the Cogswell family was in Connecticut, burglars climbed a rear trellis into the house on the night of June 14, 1919 and ransacked the second floor. Instead of breaking open the owner's 100-pound safe, they tied clothesline around it and started to lower it out a window. The rope broke and the safe crashed onto the yard's flagstones, waking the neighborhood and the police. The thieves ran off with about $900 in trinkets instead of a possible $20,000.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1966

    Actress Kim Stanley's marriage to the ground-floor tenant ends over a phone number from Robert Kennedy

    Attorney Joseph Siegel lived in the ground-floor apartment when he married film and stage actress Kim Stanley in 1964; the couple split time between her home in Congers and his Greenwich Village flat. In 1966 he joined Robert Kennedy's Senate campaign staff. Stanley found a slip with Jackie Kennedy's number on his dresser, suspected an affair, and walked out of the apartment for good. They divorced soon afterward, according to a 2006 biography.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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