141 Waverly Place

also 5 Gay Street | West Village | built 1900

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.

1826
John Pollock builds a two-story corner house that is raised to four stories in 1860
John Pollock, apparently a carpenter, had this house built in 1826 at the corner of Waverly Place and Gay Street. A store with cast-iron columns and Corinthian capitals was already in place by 1854. In 1860 the house was raised from two stories to four, and a rear portion, now No. 7 Gay Street, was added at the same time. Its Italianate fire escape on the Gay Street side still stands out.
“This brick building, with store at ground floor, was raised from two to four stories in 1860. It now includes No. 7 Gay Street, the rear portion…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1914
June
A baby from the Gay Street tenement wins first prize at a Greenwich Settlement House contest
In 1914 The Evening World ran a contest for the brightest, bonniest and best babies in New York, culminating in a Mother-and-Baby Day parade on June 25 that started at Washington Square. Mrs. Robert Berry of No. 7 Gay Street, the tenement section of this building, entered her 13-month-old son Robert in the preliminary contest held at the Greenwich Settlement House, and he took first prize.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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