Abingdon Boarding Stable

264 West 11th Street | West Village | built 1868

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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. 1868

    Carman Peter Nodine builds a four-story stable with cast-iron piers at 264 West 11th Street

    The building was put up in 1868 as a stable for Peter Nodine, a carman who lived on West 17th Street. Its brick upper floors have paired center windows under triangular pediments, with an arched pediment on the third floor, and a bracketed sheet-metal cornice. The ground floor was later plastered over for warehouse use, but the cast-iron columns holding up the building were still visible when the Landmarks Preservation Commission described it.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1894

    Freight hauler Elias Hopkins brings a white rooster to the Produce Exchange and a cockfight nearly breaks out

    Elias T. Hopkins ran his freight business from this stable under a lease. In 1894 he arrived at the Produce Exchange with a white Leghorn rooster to answer a farmer's anti-Tammany game cock, and brokers let both birds peck from the sample corn while cheering. The crowd then formed a ring for a fight, but the Floor Committee stopped it before the roosters could engage, according to The New York Times.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1896

    August 28

    The city rents space in the Abingdon livery stable to house the Ninth Precinct's patrol wagon

    John H. Berdan, whose freight business owned the building by 1874, ran it as the Abingdon Boarding and Livery Stables. On August 28, 1896, the city approved renting patrol wagon stabling here for the Ninth Police Precinct, at $60 a month. The arrangement continued through the turn of the century.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1999

    A former stable that served as a moving and storage depot is converted into a single-family house

    A moving company, Siegler Brothers, founded in 1895, had used the former stable since 1974 for moving, storage and sales of secondhand furniture. In 1999 a conversion turned it into a one-family home, with the old truck bay filled by masonry made to look like brownstone. The cast-iron piers and entablature at street level were left exposed.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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