63 Bank Street
West Village | built 1889
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1889
Henry W. Deane has a five-story brownstone apartment house built at 63 Bank Street
Architect M. V. B. Ferdon designed this five-story apartment house in 1889 for Henry W. Deane. Its front is faced entirely in brownstone, with smooth stone set against banded rustication, and a stone entrance porch ends the fire escape that runs down the center. Closely spaced brackets support the roof cornice.
- 1979
Sid Vicious is found dead of an overdose in a 63 Bank Street apartment
After release from Rikers Island on February 1, 1979, Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious went to Michelle Robinson's apartment at 63 Bank Street. Friends gathered there with heroin, and he died overnight of an overdose. Robinson and his mother, Anne Beverley, found his body the next morning. Reporters thronged the building afterward.
“…brought $200 worth of the drug to the apartment of Michelle Robinson at 63 Bank Street... Robinson and Beverley discovered his body the following morning, on 2 February 1979.”
Source: Wikipedia
Further reading
- Then & Now photos: 63 Bank StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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