31 Bedford Street

also 39 Downing Street, 35 Downing Street | West Village | built 1907

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1892
Berean Baptist Church leaves the Bedford and Downing corner for Washington Square
For most of the 1800s the northwest corner of Bedford and Downing Streets, where No. 31 now stands, held the Berean Baptist Church, a congregation founded in 1838. As it grew, the church outgrew the corner and in 1892 moved to its new home, Judson Memorial Baptist Church on Washington Square. This entry describes an earlier building on the site.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1907
Buscemi company builds a six-story flats building at the corner of Bedford and Downing
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Architect J. C. Cocker designed 31-33 Bedford Street as one of a pair of Renaissance Revival flats buildings with shops on the ground floor. It was built in 1907 for the Buscemi Building and Construction Company. The plan was withdrawn from its first permit application and refiled the next year with no changes by Cocker. By 1909 the property had passed to Michael and Giuseppe Di Santi.
“…designed as one of a pair of flats buildings by architect J. C. Cocker and constructed for the Buscemi Building and Construction Company in 1907…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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