28 Cornelia Street

West Village | built 1839

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.

1880
Eleven African-American families live in the two houses at 28 Cornelia Street
Tax records suggest the lot held a house from 1824 and a second from 1839, and by 1851 several Irish households were living in the front house. In 1880 eleven African-American families lived in the two houses, as Cornelia Street's population grew more mixed. By 1910 the census counted eight Italian families there.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1905
Real estate promoter Vincent C. Pepe rents No. 28 Cornelia Street
In 1905 the house at no. 28 Cornelia Street was rented to Vincent C. Pepe, a real estate entrepreneur and promoter of Greenwich Village. In 1924 architect Fred Savignano turned the ground floor into a shop front, and in 1962 the store became a restaurant and two second-floor apartments were combined into one.
“In 1905, no. 28 was rented to Vincent C. Pepe, the real estate entrepreneur and Greenwich Village promoter.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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