43 Greenwich Avenue

also 45 Greenwich Avenue | West Village | built 1940

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

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1930
Houses of 1848 at 43 Greenwich Avenue are joined behind one 1930 brick facade
The houses here went up in 1848 as separate dwellings, and in 1930 they were combined behind a single new front. Geometric brickwork and industrial casement windows were typical of the era, while the Mediterranean-flavored details were meant to appeal to the bohemian residents then filling the neighborhood. Village Preservation notes that joining old houses this way had been pioneered at MacDougal Sullivan Gardens in 1921. Tudor Rose Antiques, a silver and jewelry shop, has been a Village business since 1978.
Source: Village Preservation
1951
William Styron settles at 45 Greenwich Avenue in 1951 after the success of his first novel
William Styron came to New York from North Carolina in 1947 to work as a junior editor at McGraw-Hill. He settled at 45 Greenwich Avenue in 1951, after a stint in the marines and the success of his first novel, Lie Down in Darkness. Pages of that book, begun when he was 23, had first gone to Hiram Haydn, who edited for Bobbs-Merrill and taught a New School writing class Styron attended. Haydn judged him too advanced for the class and took an option on the novel.
Source: catalogimages.wiley.com

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