40 8th Avenue

also 330 West 4th Street, 36 Jane Street | West Village | built 1842

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

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1841
Neighborhood grocer William A. Wood has the corner house at 40 Eighth Avenue built
In 1841-42 the three-story brick house at 40 Eighth Avenue, on the corner of West 4th Street, was built for William A. Wood, a grocer in the neighborhood. It went up at the same time as No. 38 next door, where the builder Tarleton B. Earle lived until 1843 before moving into No. 40. A remodel took off No. 40's dentiled cornice, which the 1969 report counted as a loss.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2005
Li-Lac Chocolates moves its flagship to 40 Eighth Avenue after its Christopher Street rent soars
Li-Lac, which George Demetrious founded in 1923 at 120 Christopher Street, moved its flagship shop to 40 Eighth Avenue in 2005 after the rent at its old home rose sharply. The shop stayed about fourteen years. Without a new lease, Li-Lac left in October 2019 for 75 Greenwich Avenue, between Bank and West 11th Streets.
Source: westviewnews.org

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