649 Hudson Street

also 30A Gansevoort Street, 30 Gansevoort Street | West Village | built 1840

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1840
The Dean family builds a row of Hudson Street houses that count as early tenements by 1851
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James and Elizabeth Dean bought the land in 1837 and put up a row of houses at 643-649 Hudson Street around 1840, with No. 649 also carrying the address 30 Gansevoort Street. An 1851 city directory lists seven to eight working-class men and women in each house, which makes them early tenements. The Dean estate kept the row after Elizabeth's death in 1891 and held it until 1956.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1884
Produce dealer Cornelius F. Duffy takes the shop at 649 Hudson and stays until 1946
Cornelius F. Duffy sold produce from No. 649 starting in 1884, and his firm remained there until 1946, one of the long-term tenancies on the row. In 1924 the West Washington Market Realty Corporation leased the buildings to upgrade them. From 1950 to 1975 No. 649 housed auto supplies and tires, sold by Ernest Slongo Distributing, Armstrong Rubber & Tire and Ensign Products in turn.
“No. 649 (30 Gansevoort Street): Henry Bohm, produce (1883); Cornelius F. Duffy, produce (1884-1946)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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