190 Bleecker Street
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.
- 1900
A seven-story Renaissance Revival tenement with a three-story arcade is built at 190 Bleecker Street
Built as a tenement in 1900, 190 Bleecker Street rises seven stories in yellow brick, with a three-story arcade ending in round-arched windows at the sixth floor and a galvanized-iron cornice. Its stoop was removed and the entrance moved down to the ground floor in 1939. The original building permit refers to a bakery in the cellar.
- 1914
Baker Frank Longo's eight-year-old son is held for ransom for 37 days
Frank Longo ran a bake shop at 190 Bleecker Street. In 1914 his young son Frank was abducted and kept for 37 days while ransom was demanded, and the newspapers covered the case heavily. A New York Times headline of July 2, 1914, which the landmarks report cites, announced that ten people had been seized as kidnappers on a clue from the stolen eight-year-old.
- 1930
Beat poet Gregory Corso is born to poor immigrants living at 190 Bleecker Street
Gregory Corso, who unlike Ginsberg and Kerouac was a native of the Village, was born in 1930 at St. Vincent's Hospital, the child of poor immigrants whose home was 190 Bleecker Street. His mother went back to Italy a year later, and he grew up partly in an orphanage and foster homes, then in a boys' home and Clinton Prison, where he said an old man handed him great novels. He met Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac in 1950.
Source: Ephemeral New York
Further reading
- The Beat poet born and raised on Bleecker StreetEphemeral New York
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