59 West 12th Street

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1931
Bing & Bing completes Emery Roth's apartment tower
Developers Alexander and Leo Bing complete this seventeen-story Art Moderne apartment building, designed by architect Emery Roth, part of a buying spree of 75 Greenwich Village lots the brothers had announced in 1929. The finished building has 104 apartments, including duplexes, with setback terraces above the tenth floor protected by streamlined railings.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1960
March 24
Sports writer John Lardner dies in his apartment
John Lardner, the sportswriter son of humorist Ring Lardner, suffers a fatal heart attack in his apartment at 59 West 12th Street, weeks after being hospitalized for heart trouble. He had lived in the building with his family for years.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1969
Jimi Hendrix rents his only New York City apartment here
Guitarist Jimi Hendrix leases an apartment at 59 West 12th Street, the first and only home of his own that he keeps in New York City. He lives there for about a year before his death in London in September 1970.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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