Cornelia Street Cafe building
29 Cornelia Street | West Village | built 1903
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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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- 1903
William H. Boylan designs a six-story tenement for 28 families at 29 Cornelia Street
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In 1903 the architect William H. Boylan designed 29 Cornelia Street for Jacob Finelite as a tenement for 28 families with a commercial ground floor. It is identical to the building to its east, which Boylan designed for Finelite under a separate permit. The Renaissance Revival front has a rusticated limestone second story and tan brick above it.
- 1977
The Cornelia Street Cafe opens at No. 29 and becomes a Village performance venue
The Cornelia Street Cafe has operated at 29 Cornelia Street since 1977, founded by Robin Hirsch, Charles McKenna and Raphaela Pivetta. It offered food alongside music, poetry and theater, and the Landmarks Preservation Commission later described it as a Greenwich Village institution.
- 1977
The Songwriters Exchange holds its first weekly meeting at the Cornelia Street Cafe
In December 1977 the newly opened cafe held the first session of the Songwriters Exchange, a weekly get-together at which Village songwriters tried out new material for one another. Two years later the cafe sponsored an LP of eight Village singer-songwriters on Stash Records, which Stereo Review named its Album of the Month in December 1979.
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- 2019
The Cornelia Street Cafe closes after 41 years, citing rising West Village rents
The cafe shut its doors at the turn of 2019, its last day falling on New Year's Day, after 41 years at 29 Cornelia Street. Rising rents tied to the gentrification of the West Village were blamed. At its busiest it put on about 700 shows a year across many genres.
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