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17 Barrow Street | West Village | built 1910

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.

1834
Carter Thomas Cox has No. 17 Barrow Street built as half of a double house with a passage to the stables
No. 17 was built in 1834 for Thomas Cox, a carter, in Flemish-bond brick and the late Federal style, as the right-hand half of a double house; Henry Cox, also a carter, lived in the left half. A wide passage at street level once ran through the pair to the rear of the lot, where the stable behind No. 17 remained in service until the close of the nineteenth century. The left half, at No. 15, was later replaced by a stable, and the ground floor of No. 17 has since become a restaurant.
“…built in flemish bond in 1834, in the late Federal style, for Thomas Cox and once had a wide passageway at street level through the two houses…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1970
March
Police raid the Zodiac and 17 Barrow Street in March 1970, months after Stonewall
Raids on gay bars did not end with the Stonewall riots of June 1969. In March 1970 police under Deputy Inspector Seymour Pine hit both the Zodiac and 17 Barrow Street. Soon afterward the after-hours Snake Pit was raided and 167 people were arrested, and the Gay Activists Alliance responded by staging a march from Christopher Park to the Sixth Precinct.
“In March 1970, deputy inspector Seymour Pine raided the Zodiac and 17 Barrow Street.”
Source: Wikipedia

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