149 Bleecker Street
Greenwich Village | built 1831
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1831
Developer Thomas E. Davis builds fifteen row houses on Bleecker Street, this one among them
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Around 1831 the developer Thomas E. Davis built a group of 15 row houses lining Bleecker Street on its north and south sides, in the stretch from Thompson Street to LaGuardia Place. This one, attributed to Samuel Dunbar, was first numbered 10 Carroll Place. It rose three and a half stories above a basement, and only a few of the original 15 survive in whole or in part.
“…built c. 1831 for developer Thomas E. Davis as part of a group of 15 row houses occupying both sides of Bleecker Street…”
- 1960
Frank Dalia of Take Three Café helps start the off-off-Broadway scene
In the late 1950s and 1960s many Village cabarets and coffeehouses began staging short plays and revues, and the chronicler Fred McDarrah credited Frank Dalia of Take Three Café at 149 Bleecker Street, along with Rick Allman of Café Bizarre, with the idea. In September 1960 the Village Voice started a separate listing called Café Dramas, and that November it renamed the heading off-off-Broadway.
- 1965
The Crazy Horse Café, a drag bar, occupies a commercial space here
From about 1965 to 1968 a commercial space at 149 Bleecker Street housed the Crazy Horse Café, which featured a revue of female impersonators. The landmarks report lists it among the South Village's gay-oriented bars and calls it a noted drag bar.
“…the Crazy Horse Café, 149 Bleecker Street (c. 1965-68), which featured a female impersonator revue…”
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