170 Bleecker Street

also 190 Sullivan Street | Greenwich Village | built 1900

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.

1835
Charles King, later president of Columbia College, builds and briefly lives in the house at 170 Bleecker
The house appears to have been built around 1835 by Charles King, who was married to Henrietta Liston Low, a daughter of the merchant Nicholas Low, whose family owned the block. King owned it until 1850 but lived there only from 1836 to 1838. He was an editor of the New York American and served as Columbia College's president from 1849 to 1864.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1893
The Industrial Christian Alliance buys the house as a shelter for men trying to reform
The Industrial Christian Alliance, an organization started on MacDougal Street in 1891, purchased this house in 1893. Its purpose was to shelter homeless men who wished to reform and were ready to work. It remained at the address until about 1911.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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