475 Avenue of the Americas
also 100 West 12th Street | West Village | built 1956
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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.
- 1956
A plain six-story brick apartment house rises on the Sixth Avenue and West 12th Street corner
The 475 Sixth Avenue Realty Company built this corner apartment house in 1956, hiring the firm of Horace Ginsbern & Associates to design it. It stands six stories high, with evenly spaced paired windows. In its Greenwich Village Historic District report, the Landmarks Preservation Commission calls it a very simple building that blends in well enough with its surroundings.
“…built in 1956 for the 475 Sixth Avenue Realty Company, and was designed by Horace Ginsbern & Associates.”
Further reading
- Then & Now photos: 475 Sixth Avenue (aka 100 West 12th Street)Village Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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