L'Artusi building

228 West 10th Street | West Village | built 1877

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1877

    Carpenters Steele & Costigan replace an old house with a four-story flathouse at 228 West 10th Street

    Adam Steele and Edward R. Costigan rented a rear shop here, then bought the property from Isaac Parmly in December 1874 for $10,000. In 1877 they demolished the old house and put up a four-story brick flathouse with a deep neo-Grec cornice and an elaborate doorway. They kept a carpentry and glazing shop in the rear yard into the 1890s.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1939

    A subway station agent living here is caught in Dewey's nickel-looting probe

    Daniel Power, a city subway station agent who lived at 228 West 10th Street, was promoted to train dispatcher in early 1939. Days later District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey opened an inquiry into the looting of nickels from turnstiles, which he said had cost the city $1,500,000. Twenty-six employees were indicted by March 31, and Power was among those who pleaded guilty.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1976

    May 16

    The Yellow Brick Road restaurant's owner is handcuffed to a pipe in a gunpoint robbery

    A bar-restaurant called the Yellow Brick Road took over the ground floor in 1969 and became a neighborhood favorite, known for a $3.50 Sunday brunch with champagne. After closing on the night of May 16, 1976, owner Robert Santopietro let in a man who used a ruse to get inside, then pulled a gun, handcuffed him to a basement pipe and took $1,587 from the register.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1989

    Eighty Eights cabaret makes the ground floor a Village show-tune destination

    After the Jupiter Cafe, a restaurant that turned into a jazz club on Sunday nights, the ground floor became Eighty Eights, a cabaret where performers tested new material and show tunes were celebrated. It ran for about a decade. In May 1999 Playbill reported it would likely close at the end of the month because of economics, and L'Artusi opened in the space in December 2008.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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