38 Bethune Street
West Village | built 1927
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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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- 1927
A small neighborhood garage is built at 38 Bethune Street
No. 38 Bethune Street was built in 1927 as a one-story brick garage. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 1969 district report remarked that it, like its neighbor at Nos. 40-44, might have been better designed to suit the Greek Revival houses nearby.
- 2016
Landmarks Commission approves a rooftop elevator and reconfigured windows for 38 Bethune Street
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On December 13, 2016, the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved changes to the former garage at 38 Bethune Street within the Greenwich Village Historic District. The application covered a new garage door and entrance door, reconfigured windows on the second and third floors, a rooftop elevator and stair bulkhead, and the closing of one first-floor window. Community Board 2 had heard the application on November 14.
Source: Village Preservation
Further reading
- Then & Now photos: 38 Bethune StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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