Pastis building
19 9th Avenue | also 9 9th Avenue, 11A Little West 12th Street, 11B Little West 12th Street | West Village | built 1889
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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.
- 1905
A condemned market and stables at 9 Ninth Avenue is rebuilt and raised to two stories in 1905
An earlier building on this site, a one-story market and stables at 9 Ninth Avenue, was rebuilt and raised to two stories in 1905 by the architect George M. McCabe, after the Board of Health condemned it. McCabe also designed a three-story stables building at 19 Ninth Avenue, built in 1908. Both were absorbed into the garage of 1921-22.
- 1921
Bloch & Hesse join four stables and wagon buildings into one two-story garage with stores
In 1921-22 the architects Bloch & Hesse unified four older two- and three-story stables and wagon-storage buildings at 9-19 Ninth Avenue into a single garage, with stores, for the Astor estate. Steel girders were added inside, and both stories served as garage space. The fruit and produce dealers who had rented the older buildings continued in the stores.
“…its present form resulted from an alteration in 1921-22 when four two- and three-story stables and wagon storage buildings were unified…”
- 1943
Fruit dealer Domenico Calarco buys the building from Vincent Astor in 1943 and holds it until 1962
Domenico Calarco, a fruit dealer listed in the building from 1906, bought it from Vincent Astor in 1943 and held it until 1962. The Astor family had owned it since 1878. In the garage, Leo and Frank Calarco ran the Gansevoort Garage, later called the Olympia Garage, which stayed listed here into the 1990s.
- 1999
Keith McNally opens the French bistro Pastis at Little West 12th Street and Ninth Avenue
Restaurateur Keith McNally opened Pastis in 1999 on the corner of Little West 12th Street and Ninth Avenue, in a Meatpacking District then known for sex clubs and meat processing. The neighborhood soon filled with designer shops and nightclubs, and Pastis drew celebrities, with Anna Wintour and Martha Stewart among its regulars.
Source: nypost.com
- 2004
Donna Karan stages her Spring 2005 DKNY collection as a brunch with mannequins inside Pastis
In 2004 designer Donna Karan presented her Spring 2005 DKNY collection at Pastis, staging a brunch scene with mannequins inside the restaurant. Karan later said DKNY had always been about capturing the heart and soul of New York, and asked what says New York more than brunch at Pastis.
Source: nypost.com
- 2014
Pastis serves its last steak frites in February 2014, with its building slated for demolition
Pastis served its last order of steak frites in late February 2014, after fifteen years at the corner. The building had been bought for retail use and was to be demolished, and McNally vowed to bring the bistro back on the same spot once construction was done.
Source: nypost.com
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