36 Little West 12th Street

West Village | built 1880

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.

1880
A liquor dealer, Patrick Gallagher, builds three market buildings here on Astor land
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The Astor family had owned the whole Washington Street blockfront since 1819, and in 1880 a liquor dealer named Patrick Gallagher put up three two-story market buildings at 32-36 Little West 12th Street as lessee. James Stroud is credited as architect. Patrick and Edwin Gallagher appear in the directories as liquor dealers there until 1903, while produce dealers were the other early tenants.
“…developed with three market buildings in 1880 by builder/lessee Patrick Gallagher, who was a liquor dealer. Commercial tenants were produce dealers.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1940
The Little West 12th Street market buildings are joined to the Washington Street ones for meat dealers
After foreclosure in 1938 the Astor-era market buildings passed to Dennis P. Kennedy, who altered them in 1940 and linked them to the buildings at 823-829 Washington Street. Kennedy lost the group to foreclosure in 1944, and the Gansevoort Holding Co. took it over. Later tenants were meat and poultry firms, among them House of Silz, Fudim Bros. and Loew Ave. Beef Co., which stayed from 1970 to 1993.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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