351 Avenue of the Americas

West Village | built 1877

Open on the map4 entries

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. 1877

    Henry W. Hoopes, a candy dealer, completes a four-story Neo-Grec house on Sixth Avenue

    In 1877 Henry W. Hoopes, who was in the candy business, finished this four-story house. The 1969 landmarks report describes a stone-faced building in the French Neo-Grec manner, with heavy window lintels carved with incised ornament, a bracketed cornice, and cast-iron columns at the storefront. It rises considerably above its older neighbors on the block.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1878

    November 23

    A tenant who vanished with forged funds is arrested in his apartment upstairs

    Richard Plunkett, a clerk who had worked at W. & J. Sloane & Co. since 1868, disappeared on October 8, 1878, after the firm found he had forged its name on a $1,500 check. Its books later showed he had taken $6,000 in cash. Police arrested him in his apartment here on the evening of November 23. He pleaded guilty to forgery and was sentenced to two years in prison.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1895

    January 30

    A bakery fire in the basement sends a mother and her two children down the icy fire escape

    Around 6:30 on the morning of January 30, 1895, fire broke out in the basement bakery run by Gustav Pietsch and raced up the dumbwaiter shaft to the top floor. Mary Walsh, wife of a letter carrier, ran through the flames with her two small children to the fire escape, where neighbor Alfred Pitcher took the infant and helped the others down. Her six-year-old daughter, also named Mary, died of her burns on February 10. The owner repaired the building within a few months.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1923

    December 30

    Police arrest a man at the restaurant here for carrying a flask during Mayor Hyland's Village tour

    After World War I the former bakery became a restaurant and nightclub. At midnight on Saturday, December 30, 1923, in the middle of Prohibition, Mayor John F. Hyland and his wife drove through Greenwich Village, and police made four arrests afterward. One was Charles B. Walters, arrested at this address, then numbered 47 Sixth Avenue, on a charge of possessing a flask of whisky.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

Further reading

Nearby

All 1,156 buildings with stories in West Village