30 Jane Street

also 28 Jane Street | West Village | built 1830

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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. 1870

    June

    Fruit dealer Charles Pearsall hires Linus Scudder to build a rental stable

    In June 1870 Charles E. Pearsall, who sold fruit at Fulton Market and lived in Brooklyn, hired the Village builder Linus Scudder to put up a stable at No. 30 Jane Street. The two-story red brick building had brownstone trim, a central carriage bay, and a cast cornice with dentil molding as its only ornament. Pearsall most likely built it for rental income rather than his own use.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1883

    February 15

    Stable owner Pearsall protests being shut out of the new Fulton Market

    On February 15, 1883, Charles Pearsall told the Committee of Markets that he had held a stand in the old Fulton Market but the chief clerk refused him one in the new building. Other vendors complained too, and the fish seller John C. Winters said a clerk had received $500 from him as a bonus to get a stand. Pearsall's problems were eventually settled and he later traded from No. 19 Fulton Street.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1890

    February

    Charles Van Etten gets a trucking permit for the Jane Street stable

    Charles Van Etten ran the Jane Street stable from at least 1890 and received a permit for trucks here that February. His $186 permit fee would be about $5,000 in $2016. Pearsall, the owner, died in October 1896.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 2010

    Landmarks Commission approves a ground-floor shop for the old stable

    As automobiles replaced horses, No. 30 went through several uses, and by the early 2000s it was a residence painted barn red. In 2010 the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved renovating it with commercial space on the ground floor. By 2016 that space held the shop of the French shoe and bag designer Pierre Hardy, and the paint was changed to a less garish color.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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