16 North Moore Street (Walker's building)
16 North Moore Street | also 11 Varick Street | Tribeca | built 1880
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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.
- 1878
James P. Wilson sells the corner saloon that stood here before the tenement
A saloon operated by James P. Wilson occupied this Varick and North Moore corner for years. In 1878 he sold it to a man named Conroy after being appointed a deputy sheriff, though he stayed on as bartender. Developer Albert Block bought the corner in 1879 and replaced the saloon with a tenement.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1880
Frederick W. Klempt designs a five-story neo-Grec tenement with a corner saloon
In March 1880 Klempt submitted plans for a brick tenement of five stories, costing $16,500, twenty-five feet wide on North Moore and 75 feet long on Varick. Sandstone lintels carry incised floral patterns, and a sandstone street sign is built into the facade. The ground floor held two storefronts, and the northern one seems to have been designed from the start as a saloon, run by Edward G. Schroeder.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1889
A tenant runs barefoot into the street convinced her husband means to poison her
At 3 a.m. on February 18, 1889, Margaret Ray, 25, ran out of the building barefoot, believing someone was trying to poison her. She told a justice at Jefferson Market court that her husband, a druggist, wanted to be rid of her and that she was not insane. Investigators do not appear to have visited the apartment, and she was committed for an examination of her sanity.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1914
A suspected rabid dog bites children playing outside on Thanksgiving
On Thanksgiving Day 1914 a dog menacing passengers at the Barclay Street Ferry was chased by police and found at Varick and Franklin Streets, where it sprang into a group of children playing. Several were bitten, including eight-year-old Anna Morrisey, and six were treated by a doctor from Hudson Street Hospital. Policemen shot the dog in front of 40 Hudson Street, and the Board of Health was notified.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1973
Two men are found dead with stab wounds after a fire in a fifth-floor apartment
On January 8, 1973 firefighters answering a fire in Donald MacNiven's apartment found him and his neighbor John Beardsley dead, with multiple stab wounds. The New York Times described the building as occupied mainly by single men, and police believed many were gay. The deaths came amid several killings of gay men in the area that month, which frightened the community.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- Frederick W. Klempt's 1880 Tenement and Saloon - 16 North Moore StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
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