Enrico & Paglieri

66 West 11th Street | also 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. 1894

    May

    Composer Fred Zaulig's funeral is disrupted when a mourner thinks he is alive, and a doctor is fetched from No. 54

    Fred W. Zaulig, a composer who wrote music for the Kiralfy Brothers' spectacles, lived at 64 West 11th Street and died there in May 1894. At the funeral two days later, a mourner thought the body looked lifelike and a cry went up that he was in a trance. A neighbor, Dr. Brannan, was brought from No. 54 and pronounced him dead, and the service went ahead after an hour's delay.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1895

    October 21

    A boarder robs the house overnight and the wrong man is jailed for a week

    In October 1895 Annie Chase, who ran the boarding house, let a room to a man she thought refined, who was gone by morning along with about $500 in valuables. She picked John Ford out of the rogues' gallery, and he spent a week in the Tombs. Detectives then caught John and Lena Smaling pawning goods, including Chase's clock, and she admitted her mistake.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1930

    Painter Walt Kuhn lives at No. 66 in an Italianate row built for broker James N. Gifford

    The painter Walt Kuhn lived at 66 West 11th Street during the 1930s, according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission. The house belongs to a row of four Italianate houses of 1853-54 built for Wall Street broker James N. Gifford, who inherited the property from his brother Andrew. Their arched doorways, with rosette-decorated pilasters, contrast with the Greek Revival row to the east.

    “Walt Kuhn, the painter, lived at No. 66 during the Nineteen-thirties.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  4. 1976

    February

    Josephine Paglieri's belongings are strewn on the snowy sidewalk after her death

    Josephine Paglieri died upstairs in 1976 at 95, as the house was about to become apartments. Her books, furniture and clothes were put out on the curb, and the New York Times of February 7 described strangers picking through them in the snow. A sanitation truck crushed the furniture, and the papers and photographs she had kept for decades were swept up.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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