18 Bank Street

West Village | built 1845

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

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1845
Developer Stephen B. Peet completes No. 18 as one of ten matching Greek Revival houses
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Number 18 belongs to a terrace of ten houses that Stephen B. Peet, a real estate developer, built in 1844-45 on Bank Street's south side. He had purchased the site in 1843 from the Bank of New York. The houses combine Greek Revival form with picturesque Gothic touches, such as shallow ogee-shaped arches over the doors and windows. No. 18 is one of only three in the row whose stoop was later removed and replaced by a ground-floor entrance.
“Out of this entire row, only three of the houses (Nos. 18, 24 and 28) have had their stoops replaced by ground floor entrances.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1929
February 1
A patrolman breaks into No. 18's basement and fires three shots into the Waverly Inn next door
On February 1, 1929, Patrolman Edward T. Coleman entered the basement apartment at No. 18 Bank Street for no clear reason. He fired three shots through the wall into the restaurant in the basement of No. 16, then called Ye Waverly Inn, where diners were seated. Police arrested Coleman, charging him with malicious mischief and with firing a gun in a public place.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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