51 Gansevoort Street
also 3 9th Avenue | West Village | built 1899
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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.
- 1887
The widening of Gansevoort Street leaves a triangle of land that becomes a one-story stable
When Gansevoort Street was widened in 1887, the Wendel estate altered the triangular piece of No. 1 Ninth Avenue that remained into a one-story stable. The Wendels descended from John Gottlieb Mathias Wendel and his wife Elizabeth Astor, a sister of John Jacob Astor, who acquired the land from Astor in 1837. The family and its Wendel Foundation held it until 1943, and historic maps are believed to number it 51 Gansevoort Street.
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