434 Avenue of the Americas

also 70 West 10th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1894

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.

1894
Solomon Sayles replaces a corner building with a six-story store and loft
In February 1893 provisions dealer Solomon Sayles bought the old building on the lot at Sixth Avenue and 10th Street's southeast corner. He commissioned Ralph S. Townsend to design a six-story brick-and-stone replacement in an Italianate Renaissance style, finished in 1894, with a ground-floor store for his grocery business. Money troubles later led him to transfer the title for the benefit of creditors, but he regained it and the business lasted for decades.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1960
The Joffrey American Ballet Center occupies the third floor
By 1960 the Joffrey American Ballet Center was using the building's third floor, where it stayed through a larger renovation in 1964. By 1979 the school had spread into the fourth floor as well. Its successor, the Joffrey Ballet School, was still operating at the address when Daytonian in Manhattan wrote about the building in 2022.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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