396 Avenue of the Americas

also 62 West 8th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1935

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.

1854
A corner liquor store and a row of small trades stand at Sixth Avenue and West 8th in 1854
An earlier building stood on this corner lot in 1854: a shallow first-class building plus an old corner store. The occupants included a barber, a money changer, a bottler and a tea merchant. The corner unit was a liquor store with its entrance on Sixth Avenue.
“On this site in 1854 were a shallow, first-class building and an old corner store. Here were a barber, an "exchange" man (money changer), a bottler…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1935
A one-story diner building takes the corner of Sixth Avenue and West 8th Street in 1935
The low, fully glazed corner building was put up in 1935 and altered in 1950. Its wide parapet, lined to suggest clapboard, carries the concessionaire's name and symbol on both streets. By 1969 the diner was serving quick lunches to the shoppers and commuters on the avenue.
“The building was erected in 1935 and altered in 1950.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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