421 West 13th Street
also 425 West 13th Street | West Village | built 1902
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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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- 1902
Hans E. Meyen finishes a neo-Renaissance warehouse with banded brick rustication
Hans E. Meyen designed the warehouse at 421-425 West 13th Street in 1901-02. Its facade is neo-Renaissance in style, with bands of brick rustication that the landmarks commission calls unusual. It was one of several warehouses built in the Gansevoort Market district around the turn of the twentieth century.
- 1959
Quality Wholesale Veal Co. begins a 34-year stay at 421-425 West 13th Street
Quality Wholesale Veal Co. appears in the landmarks commission's list of long-term commercial tenants, with dates running from 1959 to 1993 and addresses at 421-425 West 13th Street and 837-843 Washington Street. Its decades in the district show how the wholesale meat trade carried on here even after the Zoo nightclub opened at this address.
“Quality Wholesale Veal Co. (1959-93) 837-843 Washington Street; 421-425 West 13th Street…”
- 1970
The Zoo opens here as the first gay nightclub in the Gansevoort Market district
The Zoo, at 421-425 West 13th Street, opened in 1970, a year after the Stonewall uprising. The Landmarks Preservation Commission lists it as the earliest of the gay-oriented nightclubs that began to appear among the district's meatpacking warehouses during the 1970s. Few legal residences existed in the area, and its remoteness and narrow streets helped a late-night scene grow.
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