124 Waverly Place

Greenwich Village | built 1930

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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. 1905

    April 3

    Police raid an illegal horse-betting operation at 124 Waverly Place

    By 1905 the boarding house at 124 Waverly Place has lost its once-upscale tone and takes only men as lodgers. On April 3 Acting Inspector Hogan and three detectives arrest John Roberts, William Bishop and Joseph Larbee, charged with running a handbook. The three had been taking horse-racing bets inside the house.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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