32 Little West 12th Street
also 34 Little West 12th Street | West Village | built 1920
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1880
Liquor dealer Patrick Gallagher builds three market buildings on Astor land
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The Astor family had owned the whole Washington Street blockfront since 1819, and in 1880 John Jacob Astor III's property here was developed with three market buildings by Patrick Gallagher, a liquor dealer who built as lessee. Patrick and Edwin Gallagher sold liquor in the buildings until 1903, while the other tenants were produce and fruit dealers.
- 1923
The Astors sell the block for $700,000 to a company planning a ten-story refrigerated building that is never built
After William Waldorf Astor died in 1919, the family sold this property in 1923 to the Fox-Gelberg Holding Company, together with the Washington Street buildings on the block, for $700,000. The buyers said they would build a ten-story concrete building with refrigeration, offices and stores for fruit, produce and meat-packing firms. The plan never went ahead.
- 1938
Meat dealer Dennis P. Kennedy takes over the market buildings and plans refrigeration for wholesale meat and poultry
Dennis P. Kennedy, a meat dealer who later headed Chelsea Refrigerating Service, took over the property in 1938 after a foreclosure and announced that it would be modernized with refrigeration for wholesale meat and poultry dealers. The buildings were altered in 1940 and joined to 823-829 Washington Street, but Kennedy lost them to foreclosure in 1944. Later tenants included House of Silz poultry and Loew Ave. Beef.
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