300 Bleecker Street

also 302 Bleecker Street | West Village | built 1900

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.

1829
Attorney Charles Oakley builds a row of four houses at 296-304 Bleecker Street
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In 1829 Charles Oakley, an attorney who owned a good deal of property around Commerce, Barrow and Bedford Streets, had a row of four brick houses built on Bleecker Street, in Flemish bond. They were probably planned with stores on the ground floor, and all had become commercial by the mid-1850s. Nos. 300 and 302 later gained a fourth story, in the 1870s, and were joined behind a single high brick parapet.
“This row of four dwellings was erected in 1829 for Charles Oakley. ... At No. 300-302, a fourth story was added in the Eighteen-seventies…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1966
The Bleecker Street Cafe at 302 Bleecker Street is noted in 1966 for its crowd
In 1966 the Bleecker Street Cafe at 302 Bleecker Street was noted for the unusual crowd it drew. The address later became the Indian restaurant Surya, and the NY Songlines walking-tour listing for Bleecker Street still records the cafe's name.
Source: nysonglines.com

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