283 Bleecker Street
West Village | built 1874
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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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- 1874
Tailor Morris Jacobs builds a five-story tenement at 283 Bleecker
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Julius Boekell designed this Italianate building around 1874 for Morris Jacobs, a merchant tailor from Prussia, on a street where row houses were giving way to tenements. Seven families lived there in 1880: Americans, Irish and Germans who worked as clerks, laborers, merchants, printers and carpenters. Morris, Harris and Flora Jacobs are listed as its owners until 1905.
“…constructed for Morris (or Moritz) Jacobs, a merchant tailor from Prussia…”
- 2008
Second Childhood, the antique toy shop at 283 Bleecker, closes after decades
Grover Van Dexter, an actor-turned-collector, ran the antique and rare toy shop Second Childhood here. His collection outgrew his apartment by 1969, and the storefront rented for $150. The shop sold carousel horses, cast-iron banks, marionettes and, in the 1970s, rare Japanese toys. Rising rents and old age forced it to close in 2008, and he sent most of the stock to auction.
Source: Village Preservation
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