442 Avenue of the Americas

also 71 West 10th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1835

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.

1834
John H. Marine builds a corner house with a store at Sixth Avenue and 10th Street
In 1834 John H. Marine bought four lots at the northeast corner of Sixth Avenue and 10th Street from William Beach Lawrence and quickly began two houses on the corner. The three-story corner house had a store on the ground floor and a residential entrance on 10th Street. By the mid-1840s grocer John W. Pope was running the store and living upstairs with his family.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1851
Stephen Griffen moves his bookstore into the former grocery space
Around 1851 Quaker bookseller Stephen Griffen moved his shop into the space where Pope had kept his grocery. The store, which probably sold mostly religious titles, stayed for about two decades before moving out in 1872. Shoe merchant John L. Lewis then took the space and opened a second store on Broadway in 1878.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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