50 West 8th Street

also 48 West 8th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1930

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

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1851
An earlier building on the site: a stable running past the middle of the block, run by Martin Philbin
An earlier building on this site, at 48-50 West Eighth Street, was a huge structure filling the double lot by 1851 and reaching beyond the middle of the block. Most of it was a stable lit by skylights, with a shallow dwelling at the street front. Martin Philbin managed the stables and lived in that front house, sharing it with a blacksmith, someone in the liquor trade, and two laborers.
“The stables were run by Martin Philbin, who lived in the shallow house, as did a blacksmith, a man in the liquor trade and two laborers.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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