25 Grove Street

West Village | built 1886

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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. 1886

    Berger & Baylies replace an old Herring-farm house with a five-story apartment building for $24,000

    The lot held an old house that had been part of the Herring family's farm and, in the 1840s, the home of David E. Wheeler, a School Board commissioner. The developers George Rothmann and Ferdinand Sieghardt bought it and hired Berger & Baylies, who had taken over the practice of Griffith Thomas. Finished in 1886 for $24,000, the building has four apartments per floor and mixes Romanesque Revival with neo-Grec details.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1889

    March 17

    A resident bookkeeper has no record of a payment to a city official in a market graft inquiry

    George H. Schweitzer, bookkeeper for a Centre Street delivery firm, testified on March 17, 1889 before the Commissioners of Accounts. Vendors at the new West Washington Street Market had complained that officials demanded bribes for stall space. Schweitzer said $137 had been paid to fit up his employer's two stands, but he could not find the payment in his ledgers, calling it a cash deal. Investigators had evidence that no work was done on the stands.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1894

    April

    Druggist James G. Beach tells a reporter he doesn't know what's in Paine's Celery Compound, but it sells

    James G. Beach, who briefly served in the Union Army and opened his neighborhood drugstore in 1864, was among the first tenants. In April 1894 an Evening World reporter visiting his Beach Pharmacy for an article on Paine's Celery Compound heard him praise it as the best-selling patent medicine he stocked, though he admitted he did not know its ingredients. Beach retired in May 1898 and died in his apartment here five months later, aged 57.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1961

    April 9

    A resident folk singer is arrested in Washington Square Park for defying the park's ban on folk singing

    Roger Smith, who lived at No. 25, was arrested on April 9, 1961 in Washington Square Park with other singers for breaking a ban on folk singing and guitar playing that Parks Commissioner Newbold Morris had recently ordered. The arrests helped set off a protest in the park on April 30 that drew about 2,000 people and, in the Times's account, came close to rioting.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1970

    April 15

    Resident Dianne Donghi is arraigned with two other Weathermen on a bomb conspiracy charge

    Dianne Donghi, a member of Students for a Democratic Society and the Weathermen, traveled to Havana with Bernardine Dohrn in July 1969. On April 15, 1970 she was arraigned with two others on a charge of conspiring to plant bombs. She was freed on $15,000 bail on April 24 but arrested the next day as a fugitive from Illinois, where she was wanted in connection with a bomb factory.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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