132 Bank Street

West Village | built 1833

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

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1940
The painter Philip Evergood lives at 132 Bank Street from 1940 to 1947
Philip Evergood, a well-known painter, made his home in this 1833 Greek Revival row house for seven years, from 1940 to 1947. The house has been remodeled with a double casement window on the upper floor and a dormer above it to bring in north light. The Landmarks Preservation Commission noted Evergood's residence in its 1969 report on the Greenwich Village Historic District.
“Philip Evergood, a well known painter, lived at No. 132 Bank Street from 1940-47.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1947
August 17
A burglar shoots two police officers at Philip Evergood's house, killing Officer Thomas Gargan
On August 17, 1947, Officer Thomas J. Gargan and his partner answered a neighbor's call about a burglary at Philip Evergood's house, 132 Bank Street. The burglar shot Gargan in the chest, killing him, and wounded the partner; the weapon was a flare gun taken from inside the house. He received a death sentence and was executed in 1948. Evergood was charged under the Sullivan Act for not registering the gun and was acquitted by a three-judge panel.
“Police Officer Thomas J. Gargan, responding to a neighbor's call reporting a burglary, was fatally shot in the chest and his partner was wounded by the burglar.”
Source: Wikipedia

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