299 West 12th Street

also 610 Hudson Street | West Village | built 1931

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1929
April 1
Developer Leo Bing announces a plan to remake the West Village
Leo Bing of Bing & Bing said his firm had quietly bought 75 small lots and old buildings around Abingdon, Sheridan and Jackson Squares, to be combined for large apartment buildings, among them 299 West 12th Street. He predicted the area would rival Central Park West within a few years, citing the coming Eighth Avenue subway and the new West Side Elevated Highway. Construction began in 1929, months before the Depression.
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1931
July 30
An Art Deco apartment hotel opens facing Abingdon Square
Architect Emery Roth, whose other works include the Beresford and the El Dorado, designed the 18-story building, which includes two penthouse floors. It was granted an occupancy license on July 30, 1931, and opened as an "apartment hotel" with a kitchen on the ground floor.
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1986
The apartment hotel converts to condominiums
In 1986 299 West 12th Street and its sister building at 302 West 12th Street were converted to condominiums, mostly studios and one-bedrooms. The 18-story building now holds 183 apartments facing Abingdon Square Park.
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2011
Jennifer Aniston buys the building's penthouse
Jennifer Aniston bought the penthouse and a one-bedroom unit beneath it for a combined $7.9 million, planning to join them into a duplex. She dropped the plan in 2012, less than a year after buying, and the units were sold to another owner in the building.
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