257 Bleecker Street
also 37 Cornelia Street | West Village | built 1829
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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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- 1930
Matthew Del Gaudio, architect of Our Lady of Pompeii, raises 257 Bleecker to four stories
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Charles Oakley built 257 Bleecker as a house around 1829, after buying 26 lots on the block from Gardner and Sarah Jones in 1819. The Anello family took over in 1921 and added a brick rear extension. Nine years later they hired Matthew Del Gaudio, architect of the nearby Church of Our Lady of Pompeii, to add a fourth floor, remove the old Cornelia Street storefront and raise the extension a story.
“Nine years later, the Anellos hired Matthew Del Gaudio, who was responsible for the design of the nearby Our Lady of Pompeii Church…”
- 1990
Murray's Cheese Shop occupies 257 Bleecker Street from 1990 to 2004
From 1990 to 2004 the ground floor at the corner of Bleecker and Cornelia Streets housed Murray's Cheese Shop. The shop dates to 1940 and afterward moved across the street to 250-258 Bleecker Street.
- 2000
Murray's Cheese, then at 257 Bleecker, wins a Village Award from the neighborhood preservation society
In 2000 the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation gave Murray's Cheese a Village Award while the shop was still at 257 Bleecker Street. Owner Rob Kaufelt, who has run the shop since 1991, recalled that its first owner, Murray Greenberg, had sold it to Louis Tudda, an Italian immigrant. He added that the folk singer Dave Van Ronk shopped there and later taught him guitar.
Source: Village Preservation
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