2 9th Avenue

also 5 Little West 12th Street | West Village | built 1913

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

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1913
Vincent Astor's six-story warehouse at Ninth Avenue and Little West 12th Street opens for provisions dealers
In 1913 the architects LaFarge, Morris & Cullen designed a six-story brick warehouse in the Arts and Crafts style at 5 Little West 12th Street, also numbered 2-8 Ninth Avenue, for William Vincent Astor. The provisions firm of C. Perceval, a tenant from 1916, stayed until 1922. The building changed hands in 1943.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1929
Ottman & Co., butchers founded in 1848, spend over six decades in the Astor warehouse
Ottman & Co., wholesale dealers in meat, game and poultry, occupied the building for more than sixty years from the 1920s. William Ottman had founded the butchering firm in 1848, and it passed to his nephew Jacob and then Jacob's son John. John Ottman bought the building in 1986, and in 1987 Peter and Richard Kleinknecht, of Kleinknecht Electric, acquired it.
“Ottman & Co., wholesale meat, game, and poultry merchants, was located here for over six decades, beginning in the 1920s.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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