5 Weehawken Street

also 3 Weehawken Street | West Village | built 1877

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1928
Two old tenements are joined into studio apartments with a roof garden
In 1928 Edgar H. Bogert, who owned the buildings with Harold L. Bailey, applied as architect to combine Nos. 3 and 5 Weehawken Street. The cornice gave way to a brick parapet, the storefronts were removed for apartments and the front was given a Colonial Revival look with round-arched fanlights over the doors. An August 1929 advertisement offered one- to three-room apartments for $50 to $75 with a roof garden facing the Hudson.
“A few apartments, 1-2-3 rooms, kitchenette and bath; $50 to $75; lease; all modern improvements; roof garden with Hudson River panorama.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1934
A newspaper calls the building the last outpost of Village artists, home to a set designer and a Writers Project worker
The Villager in 1934 described the remodeled studios at Nos. 3 and 5 as the home of literary and artistic people living off the beaten path. Residents included Helen Winner, a WPA Writers Project employee who edited features at the Communist Daily Worker, Joseph McCord Jr., a theater set designer, and the ornamental ironworker Frederick S. Benedict Jr., who lived here from about 1937 to 1960.
“…the last outpost of the Greenwich Village artists. ... Helen Winner (c. 1935) ... Frederick S. Benedict, Jr. ... and Joseph McCord, Jr. (c. 1939), theater set designer.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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