134 Charles Street
West Village | built 1912
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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.
- 1932
American Railway Supply Co., a brass-tag maker here, is picked to make the subway's employee badges
Van Vleck & Goldsmith designed this factory in 1911-12 for the American Railway Supply Co., a brass tag maker headed by William H. Woolverton, which stayed until at least 1945. In 1932 the company was chosen to supply the subway system's employee buttons and lapel pins, plus badges for motormen, conductors, guards and porters. In 1938 the metal-stamping Partition Servicing Co. bought the building.
“American Railway was selected in 1932 to supply the buttons and lapel insignia for employees... and badges for motormen, conductors, guards and porters…”
- 1965
Automobile heir Walter P. Chrysler Jr. turns the factory into an art gallery and residence
A 1965 conversion made the building a gallery and residence for the automobile heir Walter P. Chrysler Jr. (1909-1988), also a prominent collector of art and artifacts. When his stamp collection, valued at $100,000, was sold in 1967, the New York Times reported that the deal closed in a hideaway office he kept in New York.
- 1973
Antiques dealer Alan Greenberg buys the building, and the artist Jennifer Bartlett later owns it
Chrysler sold this building in 1973 to Alan Greenberg, who ran an antiques business on Bleecker Street. The artist Jennifer Bartlett was among its later owners, appearing in the ownership record from 1982. In 1989 the architect Victor Caliandro added a third story to the two-story structure.
“Chrysler sold the property in 1973 to Alan Greenberg, the owner of an antiques business on Bleecker Street. One of the later owners was the artist Jennifer Bartlett.”
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