345 West 88th Street
Upper West Side | built 1915
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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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- 1929
Babe Ruth moves into a seventh-floor apartment at 345 West 88th Street
Babe Ruth lived in this building, between West End Avenue and Riverside Drive, from 1929 to 1940. His apartment had 12 rooms on the seventh floor and was later divided into smaller units. A plaque on the building marks his years here. Ruth also lived for a time at 173 Riverside Drive, a short walk away.
Source: westsiderag.com
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