63 Bedford Street
also 29A Morton Street, 29 1/2 Morton Street, 29 Morton Street | West Village | built 1886
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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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- 1885
George Keister designs a Queen Anne corner apartment house with a store for John Totten
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This five-story brick apartment building, on the Bedford Street corner at Morton, was built in 1885-86 for John Totten and designed by George Keister. It has a store at street level and a side entrance on Morton Street. Its bracketed cornice, with rosettes under arched motifs and a sunburst in the central pediment, is the report's example of Queen Anne style.
“…five-story brick apartment house on the corner site, with a store at ground level, was built in 1885-86 for John Totten and was designed by the architect George Keister…”
- 1973
Kenny Shopsin buys the corner grocery at Bedford and Morton Streets for $25,000
Shopsin's began as a neighborhood grocery on the corner of Bedford and Morton Streets. In 1973 Kenny Shopsin bought the store, its stock and its goodwill, though not the building, for $25,000, using money from his father. The previous owner had made and sold roast beef, and Shopsin kept doing so. The shop later became the restaurant at 63 Bedford Street.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2002
Shopsin's, known for its 900-item menu, leaves 63 Bedford Street after a lease dispute
The Shopsin's restaurant at 63 Bedford Street was known for chef-owner Kenny Shopsin's menu of about 900 dishes and for house rules such as turning away parties of more than four, which Calvin Trillin wrote about in The New Yorker. A lease dispute pushed it out in 2002, and it moved to 54 Carmine Street, then in 2008 to the Essex Market. Matt Mahurin made a documentary about Shopsin, I Like Killing Flies.
Source: Wikipedia
Further reading
- Then & Now photos: 63 Bedford Street (aka 29½ Morton Street)Village Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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