43 Perry Street

West Village | built 1859

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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. 1852

    March 7

    Police officer spots smoke at a crowded rooming house on this lot

    An earlier building stood here before the present one: by the 1850s No. 43 Perry Street was a rooming house full of immigrant families. On the morning of March 7, 1852, Officer Westerfield noticed smoke on its second floor, and the roused residents put the fire out with a few buckets of water. Later that year, one of its boarders, the Irish laborer Thomas Murray, was badly hurt when a nearby frame building undergoing foundation work collapsed.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1900

    Coal dealer's family is found to have cheated a creditor, ending the business

    Fredericka Adickes ran a coal and wood business from 43 Perry Street after her husband died. By October 1898, with creditors closing in, she sold the business to her sons and moved her other property to her daughters for a nominal sum. A court case reported in 1900 found the family had conspired to defraud a creditor, and that was the end of the Adickes operation here.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1919

    January 8

    Jetter Dairy, based here, is named in an ad during New York's milk fight

    Albert Jetter's milk business operated from 43 Perry Street from about 1906 and was incorporated in 1917 as the Jetter Dairy Company. During the 1918-19 fight between upstate dairy farmers and city milk retailers, the Dairymen's League ran an advertisement in The Evening World on January 8, 1919 naming the firm among the retailers selling upstate milk. By the early 1930s the company had moved to Madison County, New York.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1965

    Architect Simon Zelnick turns an old stable into a marble-faced house

    The Landmarks Preservation Commission traces the building to the 1850s, when builder Linus Scudder put up stables here: a two-story one at the rear, then a three-story one in front with a carriageway. In 1965-67 architect Simon Zelnick remade it for owner B. Doing, adding a marble veneer, a garage door balanced by the front doorway, and a stone coat of arms in the gable.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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