52 8th Avenue
West Village | built 1900
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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.
- 1902
A homeless man the laundry owner let sleep in the shop is found dead in the morning
By 1902 the ground floor of No. 52 holds a laundry run by Sidney Sandford, in a space that had been a barber shop for much of the nineteenth century. Sandford lets a homeless man, Louis Simble, sleep in the shop at night. On the morning of March 13 he finds the 52-year-old dead, of natural causes.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- Then & Now photos: 52 Eighth AvenueVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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