179 7th Avenue South

also 61 Greenwich Avenue | West Village

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.

1969
A gas station with a service garage fills the north end of the Perry Street triangle
When the Landmarks Preservation Commission surveyed the Village in 1969, the triangular block between Perry Street and Greenwich Avenue kept only two houses, Nos. 57 and 59 Greenwich Avenue. A filling station with a service garage took up the whole northern end, and the report faulted the garage for using no materials or details that suited its neighbors. The structure described is an earlier building on the site, since the lot has been rebuilt.
“A gasoline filling station with service garage occupies the entire northern end of this conspicuous site…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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