4 Bedford Street

West Village | built 1829

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1829
George Downing has a three-story Federal house with a peaked roof built at 4 Bedford Street
Built in 1828-29 for George Downing, 4 Bedford Street began as a three-story Federal house with a peaked roof. The landmarks report lists major alterations in 1870, 1901 and the mid-20th century, which left a four-story brick row house in an altered Federal style.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1870
No. 4 Bedford Street gains a fourth floor in 1870 and houses four families by 1880
The house was enlarged to four full stories in 1870, part of a wave of conversions that turned single-family Village houses into cheaper multiple dwellings for working-class and immigrant newcomers. The 1880 census recorded four families living there, and by 1901 a store occupied the ground floor. In the mid-20th century the ground story was reworked and the building went back to entirely residential use.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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