186 Bleecker Street

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.

1924
The peaked roof of 186 Bleecker is replaced by a full fifth story in 1924
The report says 186 Bleecker already had a corner store by 1868, when a newspaper advertisement offered one suitable for any business. Like others in its row of 1861 houses, it later lost its peaked roof: a full fifth floor appears to have been added under an alteration filed in 1924.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1975
Le Figaro Café reopens at 184-186 Bleecker in 1975 and stays until 2008
Le Figaro Café, which first opened here in 1957, closed in 1969 and then reopened in 1975, continuing until 2008. It had been known as a Beat Generation haunt, and Jack Kerouac, Lenny Bruce and Bob Dylan are said to have visited. The report draws on a 2008 New York Times article about the café.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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