George F. Coddington Jr. House

64 Perry Street | West Village | built 1866

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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. 1866

    Robert Mook designs 64 Perry Street for builder George F. Coddington Jr.

    The Landmarks Commission describes 64 Perry as one of four late Italianate town houses of 1866 that read as a row, with matching window lines. Robert Mook designed Nos. 60 and 64, and William H. Hume designed Nos. 62 and 66. No. 64 was built for George F. Coddington Jr., a builder; it has three stories over a basement, a high stoop and a round-arched doorway with a keystone.

    “Nos. 60 and 64 were designed by Robert Mook, architect…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1882

    August

    A rich man's son and son-in-law lock his second wife in the back parlor

    Mirror and frame maker William F. Blanck had married widow Amanda Waring in 1881, to the dismay of his older children. In August 1882 his son-in-law Alfred Gedney, armed with a lease Blanck had signed, entered with his son Thomas and a hired man and locked Amanda in the back parlor. A justice ruled the intruders trespassers, but after a standoff of several days she agreed to leave on her lawyer's advice.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1962

    January 22

    Poet Elizabeth Bishop tells Robert Lowell this is the prettiest house she knows in New York

    In a letter dated January 22, 1962, Elizabeth Bishop, then living across the street, told Robert Lowell she had left his plays with Harold Leeds at 64 Perry Street. She called it the prettiest house she knew in New York and praised Leeds as a very good architect, adding that his partner Wheaton Galentine made very good films.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1998

    HBO uses the house exterior as Carrie Bradshaw's home in Sex and the City

    Woody Allen had filmed scenes of his 1990 film Alice at 64 Perry Street. In 1998 HBO chose the house as the exterior of Carrie Bradshaw's home in Sex and the City. The network switched to the house next door at 66 Perry three years later, yet for years visitors kept posing for photographs in front of both.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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