54 8th Avenue

also 60 8th Avenue, 14 Horatio Street | West Village | built 1959

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.

1959
A seventeen-story apartment house rises at Eighth Avenue and Horatio Street
The Fourteen Horatio Street Corporation builds a seventeen-story apartment house on the corner in 1959, entered at 14 Horatio Street. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 1969 district report faults it for ignoring the scale, windows and materials of the surrounding Village and for its curved wall and strong horizontal bands. The report says it advertises life in historic Greenwich Village while undercutting that very character.
“It was built in 1959 for the Fourteen Horatio Street Corporation. No attempt whatsoever was made, either in scale, fenestration, materials or details…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1959
Six low buildings at the pointed end of the block are replaced by large apartment houses
Six low buildings once stood at the pointed end of the block between Greenwich Avenue, Eighth Avenue and Horatio Street. The Landmarks Preservation Commission wrote in 1969 that the two large apartment houses there, this 1959 tower and the older one on Horatio Street, occupy that former site. It added that they might have fit the neighborhood better had any regulatory body existed to guide their design.
“These two large buildings occupy the former site of six low buildings.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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