121 West 3rd Street

Greenwich Village | built 1879

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Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1. 1936

   WPA mural painter Milton Jacobs lives at 121 West 3rd Street

   The designation report names Milton Jacobs, a painter on the WPA mural project, among the residents of this building in 1936. He was one of several assistants who worked under Edward Laning on the murals in the third-floor lobby of the New York Public Library.

   “Among the residents of the building in 1936 was Milton Jacobs, a WPA mural painter.”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1955

   The Music Box at 121 West 3rd Street appears in an FBI report on Village amusement places

   The Music Box restaurant, open at 121 West 3rd Street from about 1950 to 1972, was among the places named in a 1955-56 FBI investigative report on the Village's "notorious types and places of amusement." The report claimed that most bars and restaurants in the area catered to lesbians and gay men. The South Village designation report cites it in its history of LGBT life in the district.

   “The Music Box, 121 West 3rd Street (c. 1950-72), was one of the places listed in a 1955-56 F.B.I. investigative report…”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 1959

   Folklorist Alan Lomax lives at 121 West 3rd Street

   The South Village designation report says that Alan Lomax, the musicologist and folklorist, lived in this building in the late 1950s and early 1960s. A restaurant called the Music Box occupied the ground floor for several decades, after a themed restaurant named the Pirate's Den.

   “Alan Lomax (1915-2002), the renowned musicologist and folklorist, lived at 121 West 3rd Street in the late 1950s early 1960s.”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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