324 Bleecker Street

West Village | built 1854

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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. 1854

    Grocers Martin Bunn and Nicholas Herder build a block front of Italianate house-and-store buildings

    Martin Bunn and Nicholas D. Herder, wholesale grocers, put up the whole west blockfront of Bleecker Street between Grove and Christopher Streets in 1854, including this four-story brick building. They had bought the land three years earlier from the estate of Andrew Haxtun; until then it had been part of the mansion and gardens at 45 Grove Street. The row also turned the corner onto Christopher Street.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1872

    February 16

    A tenant chases down the burglar who broke into her room and has him arrested

    Mrs. Parmly, a roomer on the upper floors, stepped out for five minutes and returned to discover that her door had been forced and $300 in jewelry and money was missing. She spotted two well-dressed young men rushing from the building, Harry Brown and George Hervey, and arrested Brown herself. Hervey got away but was caught later, and both men were sentenced to five years in state prison.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1879

    James Gritman opens a stationery store downstairs, adds gramophones in 1898, and stays almost thirty years

    James Edward Gritman leased the building in 1879, moved his family into the upper floors and opened a stationery shop on the ground floor. A Mason who served as secretary of Gramercy Lodge No. 537, he rented rooms to lodgers including a telegrapher, a policeman and a printer. In 1898 he added gramophones to his stock, and he closed the store around 1904.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1938

    Owner Attilio Fiore converts the upper floors into one apartment per floor

    The Archer family sold this building along with its neighbors in 1927 after owning them for more than sixty years. By the late 1930s Attilio Fiore owned the building and lived in it, and in 1938 he remodeled the floors above the store into single-floor apartments. The work most likely included shaving off the old lintels and installing casement windows, which a recent renovation later reversed.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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