Brevoort East
20 University Place | also 20 East 9th Street, 13 East 8th Street, 32 University Place | Greenwich Village | built 1965
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1888
Century magazine editor Richard Watson Gilder lives on the site at No. 13 East Eighth
Before Brevoort East rose here, four Greek Revival town houses, Nos. 9 to 15 East Eighth Street, stood on the site. Nos. 11 and 13 shared a portico with slender fluted Ionic columns. Richard Watson Gilder, who edits Century magazine and is known as a leading host of literary gatherings, lives at No. 13 from 1888 to 1909.
Source: media.villagepreservation.org
- 1945
The Cedar Tavern moves to 24 University Place, later a magnet for painters
The Cedar Tavern, founded in 1866 on Cedar Street downtown, relocates to 24 University Place in 1945. Through the 1950s it draws Abstract Expressionist painters such as Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, and writers including Frank O'Hara and Gregory Corso. The tavern closes in April 1963 after the building is sold and demolished, and it reopens in 1964 three blocks north. The 24 University Place site is now a full-block residential building.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1965
Brevoort East rises on the block between University Place and Fifth Avenue
Brevoort East, completed in 1965, is the eastern portion of a two-part apartment house; the western portion, the Brevoort at 11 Fifth Avenue, dates from 1953. Together they fill the whole block between Fifth Avenue and University Place, from East Eighth to East Ninth Street. The light-colored brick complex runs from twelve to fourteen stories, and Brevoort East has its entrance at 20 East Ninth Street.
Source: media.villagepreservation.org
Further reading
- Then & Now photos: Brevoort EastVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
- When everybody dropped by the Cedar TavernEphemeral New York
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