284 West 12th Street

also 314 West 4th Street | West Village | built 1845

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.

1960
George Herdt's bar is advertised at 284 West 12th Street
A 1959 Villager article said George Herdt's, then at 499 Sixth Avenue, was marking its 80th anniversary under the founder's grandson. A Villager ad a year later placed the bar at 284 West 12th Street, at the corner of West Fourth Street, calling it the last vestige of Old New York. The bar had disappeared by the mid-1980s.
Source: Ephemeral New York
1974
Katherine Towler photographs Herdt Bar's neon glow at night
As a high school student, Katherine Towler wandered into Greenwich Village one night in 1974 and photographed the bar at West Fourth and West 12th Streets, with old snow still on the sidewalk. Ephemeral New York shared the picture in 2011, and it later ran on the back cover of a Bruce Springsteen box set, "Tracks II: The Lost Albums." Cafe Cluny stands in the bar's place today.
Source: Ephemeral New York

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