New School Eugene Lang Annex

64 West 11th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1855

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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. 1854

    James Gifford builds four identical Italianate houses on West 11th Street

    Wall Street broker James N. Gifford inherits four wide lots from his brother Andrew and builds four matching speculative houses on them, including No. 64. Construction starts in 1853 and finishes the next year. Aimed at upper-class buyers, the houses have red brick fronts with brownstone trim and arched doorways holding deeply recessed double doors.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1908

    The English basement becomes Enrico & Paglieri, an Italian restaurant

    By 1908 Greenwich Village is drawing artists, musicians and writers, and the basement of No. 64 is converted into the Italian restaurant Enrico & Paglieri. A wrought-iron balcony with the owners' entwined monogram is added above the entrance. The restaurant quickly becomes a Village favorite and stays in business for nearly seventy years.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1916

    Djuna Barnes prints the restaurant's address in her essay on gay Greenwich Village

    Djuna Barnes's 1916 essay "Greenwich Village As It Is" lists 64 West Eleventh Street among the places where gay men and women gather, without naming the restaurant. Around the same time the anti-vice Committee of Fourteen sends a female agent undercover after hearing the restaurant is a hangout for gay patrons. She finds no conclusive evidence and the investigation ends.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1975

    Enrico & Paglieri closes after nearly seventy years in business

    Josephine Paglieri keeps the restaurant going for a quarter century after her husband Paulo dies in 1950, then shuts it for good in 1975. She dies upstairs the next year at age 95, and the house is soon divided into apartments. In 1990 the former restaurant space is converted into a foyer and lounge for the student center at The New School.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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