166 West 4th Street

West Village | built 1890

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1971
The first-floor apartment at 166 West 4th Street becomes a restaurant dining room
George Keister designed 166 West 4th Street in 1890 for William Rankin, at the same time as the corner flats next door. It began as a residential building, but by 1941 its basement was a store. In 1971 the ground-floor apartment was turned into a dining room tied to a restaurant already operating in the cellar.
“Thirty years later the first-story apartment was converted into a dining room in conjunction with the restaurant in the cellar…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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