21 Bedford Street

West Village | built 1888

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

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1888
J. C. Cady & Co. design a five-family tenement with a store for William Moore
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In 1888 the firm of J. C. Cady & Co. designed 21 Bedford Street as a Romanesque Revival tenement for five families with a store at street level. William H. H. Moore was the owner; the building was one of many going up in Greenwich Village to house its growing immigrant and working-class population.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1915
April 29
Police corner a gunman on the roof of 21 Bedford Street
After hearing a gunshot near Houston and Hancock Streets, Sergeant Camille Pierne chased a man into the neighboring building at 19 Bedford while Patrolman Dennis Mitchell was sent up through No. 21 to meet him across the rooftops. Mitchell came out of the roof hatch at No. 21 to find the man running at him with a pistol, fired once and missed, and wrestled him while Pierne freed himself from a barbed-wire fence. The two officers dragged the man back from the roof edge; he was 21-year-old barber Benjamin Lotta of Cornelia Street.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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