15 Waverly Place
also 19 Waverly Place, 252 Greene Street, 250 Greene Street | Greenwich Village | built 1930
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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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- 1890
Developer Jeremiah Lyons buys six houses at the Greene Street and Waverly Place corner for a big loft
Earlier buildings on the site: the Real Estate Record reported on June 28, 1890 that Lyons had acquired six houses at the corner, in a block where homes built for people like Cornelius Vanderbilt were being torn down. The paper said the parcel would become a large business building.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1891
Buchman & Deisler design six lofts that read as one, around a courtyard about 40 feet square
The architects' plans called for a central courtyard about 40 feet square, with elevators and loading platforms along each side and a Greene Street entrance, so goods would not clog the street. An iron platform around the court would carry plumbing, keeping water out of the main buildings. The project was estimated at $280,000.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1904
A citywide hat and cap makers' strike shuts down Hirschberg & Co., a hat factory here
Hirschberg & Co., maker of Victor Headwear, had moved in in 1891. After the walkout began on December 22, 1904, Men's Wear reported in March 1905 that the strike had cost workers $220,000 in wages. The settlement brought no raises or shorter hours and let employers hire and fire freely, and Sidney Hirschberg promised customers prompt orders.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1909
Two garment workers are punished for pelting their foreman with rotten eggs
Gross & Weiss ran a women's apparel factory with 171 workers, most of them women. In the winter of 1909, Bertha Elkins and Bessie Schechter were angry with foreman Morris Waldman. The New York Call reported on December 17 that Elkins was sent to the workhouse and Schechter was fined $10.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1943
Two gunmen follow an office manager into the elevator and rob the Philip Dann Clothing payroll
Philip Dann Clothing made Army uniforms and ran at full speed during World War II. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported that two gunmen followed 25-year-old Abe Spitalnik, the office manager, into the elevator on February 5, 1943 and took the firm's $5,800 payroll. Paying workers in weekly cash envelopes invited such robberies.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1977
Village Skating, a disco roller rink, draws teenagers and adults here
By 1977 a roller rink called Village Skating occupied space at 15 Waverly Place. The Daily News described skaters circling to disco music on December 23. The upper floors had been converted to apartments in 1972.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1979
Syncopation, a long, narrow jazz club with brick walls and white tablecloths, opens here
The Daily News reported on June 27, 1979 that yet another jazz club had opened at 15 Waverly Place, close to Washington Square Park. Its room was long and narrow, with the walls stripped to brick and white tablecloths on the tables. Later ground-floor tenants included Club Paradise and the Apple Restaurant.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- Buchman & Deisler's 1891 15-23 Waverly Place (aka 250-256 Greene Street)Daytonian in Manhattan
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