42 Carmine Street
West Village | built 1828
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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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- 1828
Carpenter John D. Brower sells his new Carmine Street house to Thomas Emmet, a former neighborhood watchman
John D. Brower, a carpenter, bought the lot in 1827 and put up a 25-foot-wide Federal house of three stories and an attic. In 1828 he sold it to Thomas Emmet, who already knew the corner: in 1819 the City Council had appointed him a watchman, a cross between policeman and security guard, posted at Sixth Avenue and Carmine Street at $340 a year. The house changed hands again in 1842 for $3,600.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1828
A three-bay Federal row house with a peaked roof and a store at street level
The brick house of three and a half stories was built around 1827-28 for John D. Brower, in the Federal style, with three bays, stone sills and a single dormer. Insurance maps of the 1850s show a store on the ground floor. A large one-story extension was added at the back in 1891, and in 1909 an application proposed a show window projecting past the building line, which was later moved flush with it. The Landmarks Preservation Commission includes it in the Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II.
- 1858
Police seize a package of Delaware lottery tickets at the Hawley family's shop
Lotteries and policy games were popular and illegal in the 1850s. On the night of December 11, Officer Sherwood walked into the ground-floor shop run by Walter Hawley, who lived upstairs with his family, and took a package of Wood, Eddy & Co. Delaware Lottery tickets from Hawley's son James. In court ten days later James first refused to say whose handwriting was on the wrapper, then named his father, and a witness added that tickets were known to be sold at No. 42.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1889
A married policeman is arrested for abduction after two New Jersey girls are found in a room here
In September 1889 Kitty Brandt, 18, and Mary Young, 19, left West New York, New Jersey, and rented a furnished room in the house. Kitty's mother told Police Superintendent Murray that Officer Charles Velton of the 5th Precinct had lured her daughter to the city. Murray took Velton's shield and had him arrested, but the girls then told a justice they had gone willingly, and the department reluctantly reinstated him. Within days he faced a new list of charges, including leaving his post and entering a saloon for improper purposes.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1901
A butcher in the ground-floor shop is jailed for selling horseflesh as sirloin steak
Around 1900 the saloon on the ground floor became a butcher shop, run in 1901 by John Rann. On January 29 he was arrested for selling horseflesh as first-class sirloin, and the next day the 52-year-old was sentenced to 30 days in the city prison. His lawyer said it was a first offense, but the prosecutor argued that passing off horse meat was becoming too common in New York, and the judge called the crime most reprehensible.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
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