35 West 10th Street

Greenwich Village | built 1832

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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. 1910

    November 8

    A fingerprint on a stolen clock leads to what was reported as the first US fingerprint conviction

    Burglars broke into lawyer John G. Milburn Jr.'s house at 35 West 10th Street on November 8, 1910, taking a small iron safe but leaving behind a bag of loot that included a clock bearing a clear fingerprint. Detectives matched it to Harry Peck, recently released from a Massachusetts prison, and arrested him and a roommate. They pleaded guilty to third-degree burglary on January 12, 1911, in what The Sun called the first conviction by fingerprint in the country.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1916

    June 3

    Painter Anne Goldthwaite designs a suffrage banner unveiled at a Giants game

    Painter Anne Goldthwaite, who leased 35 West 10th Street from 1915, was an active suffrage supporter. For Suffrage Day at the Polo Grounds on June 3, 1916, she designed a silk New York State banner to be unfurled at the game. Its colors were coordinated with the blue smocks and yellow sashes worn by the girls selling candy to raise funds, and it was meant to head the state's division in a suffrage parade in Chicago on June 7.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1961

    February 18

    Philip Wittenberg hosts the first meeting of the campaign to save the Jefferson Market Courthouse

    Real estate interests had been eyeing the Jefferson Market Courthouse, a block away, as a site for a new apartment house when attorney Philip Wittenberg led a committee to save it. He hosted its first meeting at his home, 35 West 10th Street, on February 18, 1961, alongside Democratic district leader Margot Gayle. The committee prevailed, and restoration of the courthouse began in 1967.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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