17 Gay Street

West Village | built 1844

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

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1844
Builder Thomas Cumming puts up 17 Gay Street in 1844 in a row of four Greek Revival houses
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Thomas Cumming, a contractor, built four brick Greek Revival houses on the east side of Gay Street in 1844, and No. 17 was one of them. Each stood two stories high with an attic over a stone basement. No. 17 was later remodeled with a basement entrance, and its stoop railing was reversed so the original ironwork could stay. One house of the row was later torn down to make room for a two-story extension built in 1939 to the loft building next door.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1993
Film Carlito's Way shoots a scene at 17 Gay Street in which Al Pacino is arrested
The 1993 crime film Carlito's Way was shot partly on Gay Street, and Al Pacino's character is arrested at No. 17. In 1996 the short, bent block appeared again in the music video that Sheryl Crow made for "A Change Would Do You Good."
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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