12 Little West 12th Street

also 8 Little West 12th Street, 10 Little West 12th Street | West Village | built 1899

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

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1849
Rowhouses rise on Astor in-law's land beside a turpentine distillery, and later become tenements
John Gottlieb Mathias Wendel, John Jacob Astor's brother-in-law and colleague, held this land from 1837, and the rowhouses at 8-12 Little West 12th Street were probably built around 1849 and 1852 by James Conkright. The Conkright firm ran a turpentine distillery next door before 1852. By the late 1800s the houses were tenements, and in 1895 their facades were rebuilt with iron storefronts and balconies.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1906
Two fruit dealers, the Mallard family and Vincent Cioffi, keep shops here for decades
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The ground-floor shops of these houses were home to fruit and produce dealers from the 1880s on. The Mallard family sold fruit at No. 8 from 1906 to 1970, and Vincent Cioffi sold fruit at No. 10 from 1933 to 1986. Other tenants included celery dealers in the 1930s and 1940s and the Asia Meat Company, which arrived in 1959.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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