Ray's Pizza corner (465 Sixth Avenue)

465 Avenue of the Americas | also 103 West 11th Street, 101 West 11th Street | West Village | built 1842

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

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1842
William Hurry builds a row of Greek Revival houses starting at the corner of 465 Sixth Avenue
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In 1842 William Hurry, an architect from Abingdon Square, put up a row of five Greek Revival brick houses at Nos. 465-473 Sixth Avenue on land he bought from the widow of John Rogers. They began as three stories; Nos. 465 and 467 were later raised to four and given bracketed cornices. No. 465, also 101 West 11th Street, is the widest of them, and the row continued around the corner on West 11th Street to No. 121.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2001
September 17
Missing-person flyers cover the front of Famous Ray's Pizza at 465 Sixth Avenue after 9/11
In the days after the attacks on the World Trade Center, grieving families and friends taped printed sheets with faces, names and last-known details of the missing on walls and storefronts across the city. A photograph taken on September 17, 2001 shows the facade of Famous Ray's Pizza at 465 Sixth Avenue covered this way. Village Preservation notes that as hope faded, such walls turned into makeshift memorials.
Source: Village Preservation

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