252 West 10th Street

also 518 Hudson Street | West Village | built 1826

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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. 1826

    Builder Isaac Hatfield completes the corner house at 518 Hudson Street with a side entrance on West 10th

    This three-story Federal house of Flemish-bond brick went up in 1826 on land the Hatfield brothers had bought from Richard Amos in 1825. The Landmarks Preservation Commission notes it was built at the same time as Nos. 246 to 252 West 10th Street, and that its secondary entrance is the one numbered 252 West 10th.

    “No. 518 is also a fine Federal house with its long side and secondary entry (No. 252) on West Tenth Street... built in 1826…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1862

    Grocer Rush Sherrill earns $1,428 from his corner store

    The ground-floor store was run for years by grocer Rush Sherrill, who lived across the street at 513 Hudson. According to an American News Company publication, The Income Record, he earned $1,428 in 1862, roughly $32,000 in today's money. After the Civil War the store became a saloon run by James Doyle, and by 1872 city directories listed his liquor business here.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1886

    April

    Bakers' Union pickets a lone woman's new bakery on the corner

    After saloon keeper Michael Gilmore left in 1886, Mrs. Gray opened a bakery here. When Bakers' Union No. 1 demanded she follow its rules and she refused, it sent picketers who jeered customers and handed out circulars. The New York Times reported on April 10 that the lone policeman posted outside made no arrests, and that schoolchildren from nearby P.S. 3 heard the men's language. Mrs. Gray said she would hold out to the end.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1934

    August 9

    Writer Dorothy Phillips Hartman is found dead in her apartment after leaving her husband's home

    Dorothy Phillips Hartman, a writer, moved into a five-room apartment here in the early 1930s and married commercial artist Paul Houser, but kept the apartment. After a disagreement in early August 1934 she returned to it. On August 9 neighbors noticed fumes and police broke down her door. She had died, and she left a note to her husband.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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