326 West 4th Street

also 34 8th Avenue | West Village | built 1900

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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. 1871

    A butcher named Charles Fredericks runs the first shop recorded in the tiny building at 326 West 4th Street

    City directories first list a small two-story building standing between Nos. 324 and 328 West 4th Street in 1871, when it held the butcher shop of Charles Fredericks. Neither Fredericks nor the goldbeater Edwin Hill, who took the space by 1879, lived upstairs; both kept their homes elsewhere. A painter, Joseph A. Jackson, moved into the ground floor around 1885.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1907

    April 5

    William Bishop, who lives upstairs, is thrown from a streetcar in a collision at 23rd Street

    William Bishop, 72, lived in the upper part of the little building in the early 1900s. On the night of April 5, 1907, he rode the front platform of a southbound Seventh Avenue streetcar, which collided with an eastbound car at West 23rd Street. The New York Herald reported that passengers jumped into the street in a panic; Bishop was thrown out and injured, and he and the conductor were taken to a hospital.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1956

    A 1956 remodel turns the tiny building at 326 West 4th Street into one apartment per floor

    A newly organized bakery, the 326 West Fourth Street Bakery, opened in the building in 1943 but had to find another home the following decade. A renovation finished in 1956 created one apartment per floor, swapped the old show window for paired openings, and added a brown-brick veneer rising to a peaked parapet. The storybook-sized house has changed little since that makeover.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1969

    The Landmarks Commission describes 326 West 4th Street as a tiny two-window-wide building with a gable

    The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 1969 Greenwich Village report calls No. 326 a tiny two-story building just two windows wide, erected in the later 1800s. It notes that the facade has been completely resurfaced, with a central gable and brick coping on top and courses of soldier brick as trim. The house sits in the Greenwich Village Historic District.

    “This tiny two-story building, only two windows wide, was erected in the second half of the Nineteenth Century.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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