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18 Waverly Place | Greenwich Village | built 1900
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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.
- 1891
George B. Post sells the Waverly Place house where he grew up to developers
An earlier building on the site: a four-story, 33-foot-wide house, once owned by merchant John Dowley, became home to Joel Browne Post and Abby Church Post. Their son George Browne Post grew up there and became a leading architect. The Real Estate Record reported on February 7, 1891 that he had sold it, and the Corn brothers meant to replace it.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1891
Alfred Zucker designs a six-story Romanesque loft with a near-arcade at the top
Zucker filed plans for a $75,000 warehouse building of brick, iron and stone, finished within about a year. He avoided arched openings except on the sixth floor, where paired windows form an arcade behind thin columns. The cast-iron center allowed large glass areas, and brick panels at the fourth and fifth floors look waffled.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1897
A cloth cutter is killed when the descending freight elevator hits him as he calls down the shaft
Abraham Moses, a cutter for the Empire Cloak and Suit Company who commuted from Newark, leaned into the open shaft on September 11, 1897 to shout for more cloth. The loaded car came down and struck the back of his head, breaking his spine. He died two hours later at St. Vincent's Hospital.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1900
Union cloakmakers arrive to find themselves locked out by the Empire Cloak and Suit Company
About 200 Empire employees had joined the Cloakmakers' Union in 1899. Owners M. and J. Silverman refused to recognize it or hire new union workers, and on January 10, 1900 the workers found the building closed to them. They became officially on strike and said two days later they would not accede to the Silvermans' demands.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1944
The Kopper Company's chocolate factory fills the building with the smell of melting chocolate
The New York Times wrote on May 8, 1944 that the aroma of melting chocolate pervaded the factory, where the firm made European-style candies for stores across the country. They came in twenty varieties it had once made in Germany before opening in the United States in 1938. Kopper's stayed until 1986, and NYU later acquired the building and renovated it in 2008.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- Alfred Zucker's No. 18 Waverly PlaceDaytonian in Manhattan
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