The Jumble Shop

28 West 8th Street | also 3 MacDougal Alley | Greenwich Village | built 1900

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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. 1838

    Merchant Joseph W. Alsop Jr. builds 28 West 8th Street in a row of three investment houses

    Joseph W. Alsop Jr., a merchant and senior partner in Alsop & Chauncey, built 28 West 8th Street in 1838, together with Nos. 26 and 30, as an investment. The three-story brick house kept its Greek Revival cornice. Its first floor was later modernized for a store.

    Source: media.villagepreservation.org

  2. 1947

    Simone de Beauvoir visits the Jumble Shop on her last night in New York

    In 1947 the French writer Simone de Beauvoir spent her last night before a two-month absence in Greenwich Village, where friends took her to the Jumble Shop at 28 West 8th Street. In America Day by Day she described a charming cafe that looked almost European, with a red tiled floor and quiet tables along the walls. She added that New York lacked the right atmosphere for cafe life.

    Source: Ephemeral New York

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