304 West 10th Street
also 1 Weehawken Street | West Village | built 1873
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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.
- 1865
Merchant Abraham Van Nest's corner house and its neighbor stand here before the tenement
The lot was once part of the holdings of the wealthy merchant Abraham Van Nest, whose buildings here were a four-story corner house and a two-story house beside it. They were sold in 1865 after his death, and brick manufacturer Charles Shultz acquired the property in 1872. These were earlier buildings on the site, replaced by the tenement of 1873.
- 1873
William E. Waring designs a five-story tenement with a store for brick maker Charles Shultz
The brick manufacturer Charles Shultz commissioned William E. Waring to design a five-story Italianate building with a store at the corner of West 10th and Weehawken Streets. It first housed eight families and the shop, which used the address 1 Weehawken Street. Its facade combines painted brick with cast-iron lintels, sills and entrance hood and a pressed-metal cornice.
- 1896
A longshoreman at the Plug Hat saloon is handed a flask of carbolic acid
By 1896 the ground-floor saloon was the Plug Hat, named for its huge schooners of beer and popular with seamen and dockworkers. On September 11 a regular known as Jim offered longshoreman James Joyce a drink from a flask in the back room. It was carbolic acid, and Jim walked out before Joyce understood what had happened; Joyce was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital. The Tribune said police were hunting Jim and that Joyce's fellow longshoremen were furious.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1899
A woman trapped in a burning fourth-floor bedroom is pulled out by a passerby
On a very hot day Mary Shea, visiting her niece Sarah Kinzi on the fourth floor, found a bedroom on fire and tried to smother it with draperies. A draft slammed the spring-locked door and she was trapped in smoke, twice putting out her burning hair with her hands. A passerby heard her screams, forced the door and carried her out, and her toddler son was lifted from the fire escape. She survived with serious burns.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1920
A trucker living here starts minding parked cars for tips, and four lots follow
Thomas Mulligan, a trucker who lived in the building, began watching motorists' cars for whatever tip they offered in 1920. His brother George joined him, and by 1922 they ran four parking lots. That April Special Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Harris opened an investigation into what he called an autocratic ring, saying drivers could find no other space. Daytonian in Manhattan counts Mulligan's idea as the first parking lot.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- Wm. E. Waring's 1873 304 West 10th StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
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