169 Bleecker Street

also 201 Sullivan Street | Greenwich Village | built 1835

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

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1835
A row house is built at 169 Bleecker Street and later becomes a five-story tenement with stores
Tax records indicate the house was built in 1835 for F. A. Baltzer, probably as a single-family row house. Sometime in the 19th century it was altered into a tenement, and by 1927 the New York Times described it as a five-story building with stores. Its front was stuccoed in 1936.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1955
John Kasper's Make-It-New Bookshop sells Ezra Pound's work at 169 Bleecker Street
During the 1950s a shop called Make-It-New Bookshop operated in the building, started by John Kasper, an activist known during the civil rights era for segregationist and antisemitic rhetoric. Kasper was a close associate of the poet Ezra Pound, whose books he carried.
“…home to the “Make-It-New Bookshop” opened by John Kasper…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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