15 Abingdon Square

also 8 8th Avenue | West Village | built 1927

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1. 1927

   Sommerfeld & Sass design a six-story Gothic-detailed apartment house facing Abingdon Square for V. Green Co.

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   V. Green Co., Inc. had this six-story brick apartment house built in 1927, with plans by Sommerfeld & Sass. Late English Gothic touches mark the low, four-centered arch of the front door and the first-floor windows, and paired windows run the full height of the facade on either side of the entry. The roof parapet is crenelated, with brick piers rising above it at the ends and center.

   “Six stories high, this brick apartment house displays late English Gothic detail at the doorway and first floor windows.”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 2006

   November 1

   Filmmaker Adrienne Shelly is killed in her apartment-office here, and the staged suicide is exposed

   Actress and director Adrienne Shelly, whose film Waitress was released after her death, used an apartment here as an office. Her husband, Andy Ostroy, found her hanged in the bathtub that evening, and police first treated it as a suicide. Further investigation led on November 6 to the arrest of Diego Pillco, a construction worker aged 19, who confessed that he had staged the hanging; he later pleaded guilty to manslaughter and received 25 years.

   “Her husband, Andy Ostroy, discovered her body in the Abingdon Square apartment in Manhattan's West Village that she used as an office.”

   Source: Wikipedia

3. 2009

   August 3

   The Adrienne Shelly Garden opens in Abingdon Square Park, facing the building where she died

   Shelly's widower, Andy Ostroy, pushed for a memorial. It became the Adrienne Shelly Garden, dedicated at the southeastern edge of Abingdon Square Park, where Eighth Avenue meets West 12th Street, facing this building. Ostroy also set up the Adrienne Shelly Foundation, which gives scholarships and production grants to women filmmakers.

   Source: Wikipedia

Further reading

• Then & Now photos: 15 Abingdon SquareVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now

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