43 5th Avenue

also 1 East 11th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1905

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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. 1905

    Henry Andersen designs an eleven-story Beaux-Arts apartment house

    Developer W. E. Finn demolishes the Bryce mansion and commissions architect Henry Andersen to design an 11-story Beaux-Arts apartment building at the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 11th Street. The plans are filed in April 1903 with a projected cost of $375,000, and the building is completed in 1905. It has double-height Scamozzi columns at its base and a steep three-story mansard roof.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1913

    Irene and Alice Lewisohn fund the Neighborhood Playhouse

    Sisters Irene and Alice Lewisohn, residents here by 1912, pay the $60,000 construction cost of the Neighborhood Playhouse at 466 Grand Street in 1913. They had worked with the Henry Street Settlement since 1905 and organized a Dramatic Club in 1912.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1914

    October 18

    A dynamite bomb explodes in the boiler, apparently aimed at the Italian consul general

    A bomb explodes in the building's boiler at 6:00 a.m. on October 18, 1914, apparently meant to intimidate Italian Consul General Giacomo Fari Forni, who lives here and is unpopular with the Black Hand. A building employee's skull is crushed, and the first-floor apartments are badly damaged.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 2000

    The building appears in Woody Allen's Small Time Crooks

    Hugh Grant's character lives at 43 Fifth Avenue in Woody Allen's 2000 film Small Time Crooks. The building, converted to a cooperative in 1978, also appears in the 1996 film Everyone Says I Love You and the 1997 film Deconstructing Henry.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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