659 Washington 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.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1892
A saloon keeper's family buys a ten-family flats building and holds it for 65 years
Margaret Shaughnessy had a five-story French flats building put up here in 1885-86, with room for ten families. In 1892 she sold it to the Shiel family. Patrick Shiel was then listed in the city directory as a liquor saloon proprietor at 650 Washington Street, living at No. 678, and he and his heirs kept the building until 1957. The Landmarks Preservation Commission notes it as one of few buildings in the district that never had a shop on its ground floor.
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