400 Bleecker Street (the Peyton flats)

400 Bleecker Street | West Village | built 1888

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1888

    G. A. Schellenger designs a Queen Anne apartment house for Josephine Peyton at Bleecker and West 11th

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    The five-story corner building was planned as one of the newly fashionable "French flats", with room for eight families. Architect G. A. Schellenger gave it terra cotta panels of flowers between the windows at the north end, stone corbels under projecting lintels and a dentiled cornice on brackets. Josephine L. Peyton was the owner who commissioned it. The corner is also addressed as 288 West 11th Street.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1984

    Biography Bookshop opens at 400 Bleecker Street, near West 11th Street

    In 1984 a couple opened their first store, Biography Bookshop, in the corner building at 400 Bleecker Street, near West 11th Street. After leaving that space, they opened a smaller shop, bookbook, about seven blocks away at 266 Bleecker Street, near Morton Street.

    Source: amny.com

  3. 2010

    September

    Marc Jacobs opens Bookmarc in the former Biography Bookshop space at 400 Bleecker

    In September 2010 the fashion designer Marc Jacobs opened Bookmarc, a small shop selling coffee-table books, colored pencils, postcards and blank journals, at 400 Bleecker Street. It took the place of the Biography Bookshop, a favorite for its narrow focus on books about the lives of notable people. The opening was part of Jacobs's growing group of Bleecker Street stores: stock from his old accessories shop at 385 Bleecker was moved to Bookmarc and two other Jacobs stores.

    Source: dnainfo.com

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