60 Horatio Street

also 60A Horatio Street | West Village | built 1846

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1850

    Cartman Ellis C. Finch moves into 60 Horatio in a house developed by his father-in-law

    By 1850 Ellis Finch and his wife, Anna Maria Van Natter, were living in the new house, which her father, the cartman Peter Van Natter, owned. Van Natter and neighbor Cornelius Ackerman had bought the land in 1845 and had Abraham Demarest build five Greek Revival houses. The Sun later recalled that the lots across the street were a cow pasture then, and Mrs. Van Natter disliked the move because it was so far from the city.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1891

    April 14

    Peter Van Natter, who watched the Village grow from a cow pasture, dies, and his wife follows two months later

    Peter Van Natter was born in Orange County in 1803 and had lived in Greenwich Village since about 1828. In April 1891 he remarked that he had outlived all the old Ninth Warders, and he died in his sleep on April 14, aged 88. His wife, Clarinda, died on June 15 at 84, and the funeral took place in the parlor two days afterward.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1924

    June 5

    Roomer William Dumphy of 60 Horatio severs his wrist smashing windows to warn a burning lodging house

    In the 1920s Ruth Fifer Davis ran the house as a rooming house. Early on June 5, 1924, her roomer William Dumphy, 28, saw flames in a lodging house at 332 West 30th Street. He punched out windows to wake 15 sleeping residents and badly cut his wrist; Officer Walter Rose made a tourniquet from his nightstick cord. Local papers hailed him as a hero.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1931

    August

    Lorette Dumphy tells police her son set five fires inside 60 Horatio Street

    In August 1931 the hero's mother, Lorette Dumphy, reported that her younger son, James, had started five fires in the house one Tuesday morning. They were put out before doing much damage. James said it was an accident, that a lantern he was carrying exploded and sprayed burning kerosene, but detectives said they found the lantern intact.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1940

    March 19

    A 60 Horatio roomer is arrested singing with a radio, a veal cutlet and an alarm clock in his pockets

    At 5:40 on the morning of March 19, 1940, a patrolman found 24-year-old Carl Chapman, a roomer at the house, singing with a radio on his shoulder. His pockets held an alarm clock set for 6 A.M., salt and pepper shakers, butter and a veal cutlet. He could not explain any of it, and the Daily News ran the headline "You Figure It Out." The judge gave him a suspended sentence.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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