40 5th Avenue
also 2 West 11th Street, 44 5th Avenue, 42 5th Avenue | Greenwich Village | built 1929
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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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- 1929
Van Wart & Wein design 40 Fifth Avenue for developer Moses Ginsberg
In 1927 Moses Ginsberg's 10 West 11th Street Corporation acquires four houses on Fifth Avenue and several on West 11th Street, and demolition begins in 1928. Van Wart & Wein design the 15-story neo-Georgian cooperative, with McKim, Mead & White as architects for the purchasers. Completed in 1929, it is clad in limestone and red brick, has four Fifth Avenue maisonettes, and is crowned by a Georgian cupola.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1930
Justice Joseph Force Crater, a resident of the building, vanishes
Attorney Joseph Force Crater, who owns a penthouse here with his wife Stella, is appointed to the New York Supreme Court by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt in April 1930. After returning to Manhattan from Maine on August 3, he is not seen again. The disappearance becomes one of America's best-known unsolved mysteries.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- Van Wart & Wein's 40 Fifth AvenueDaytonian in Manhattan
- Then & Now photos: 41 Fifth Avenue (aka 2-10 West 11th Street)Village Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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