15 8th Avenue

West Village | built 1845

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.

1845
A row of three-story houses goes up on Eighth Avenue, and Bradish Johnson owns No. 15
The blockfront between Jane and West 12th Streets was built in 1845 when the estate of Richard Towning was liquidated. No. 15 was one of three houses, with Nos. 13 and 19, owned by the distiller Bradish Johnson, who also held property around the corner on West 12th. The brick houses were meant to have shops on the street and living space above.
“Bradish Johnson, a distiller, who owned Nos. 13, 15 and 19…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1897
Jacob Yormark's shoe store becomes J. Yormark Shoes at 15 Eighth Avenue
Jacob Yormark emigrated from the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1886 at age 17, and his store at 15 Eighth Avenue was renamed J. Yormark Shoes sometime between 1892 and 1897. His nephew Harry Yormark, who arrived in 1907, eventually took over and ran the store until it left the family in the 1940s, when shoes were hard to get during World War II. Jacob's brother Joseph ran a shop at 68 Clinton Street.
Source: Village Preservation
2011
A barbershop renovation uncovers the old stained-glass Yormark sign and keeps it
When Igor's Barbershop renovated the storefront in 2011, workers found a stained-glass sign reading J. Yormark Shoes. The shop kept it, and the Yormark family, including descendants Ken Yormark and Renee Yormark Entin, arranged to give the barbershop framed old photographs of the store to display.
Source: Village Preservation

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