35 Christopher Street

West Village | built 1908

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

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1908
Richard Rohe completes a matching pair of six-story apartment houses at Nos. 35 and 39
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Architect Richard Rohe designed this building and its twin at No. 39 in 1907-08 for Dominick Abbate and Pietro Alvino. Both rise six stories in brick, with splayed window lintels set with ornamental keystones and raised end blocks, and they have stores at street level under a brick parapet. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 1969 Greenwich Village report describes the two as presenting a uniform face to the street.
“They were built by Richard Rohe in 1907-08 for Dominick Abbate and Pietro Alvino, of brick, with elaborate splayed window lintels having ornamental keystones…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1977
A gift shop called Laminations is the newest addition to the specialty stores at 35 Christopher Street
In 1977 Blueboy magazine took note of Laminations, a gift shop at 35 Christopher Street, as the latest arrival among the street's specialty businesses. Since the 1960s shops, bars, restaurants, bookstores and theaters serving the LGBT community had opened on every block of Christopher Street, which in the years before the 1969 Stonewall uprising had become the center of LGBT life in Greenwich Village.
Source: NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project

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