67 8th Avenue

West Village | built 1884

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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.

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  1. 1884

    James E. Ware designs a pair of Eighth Avenue store-and-tenement buildings for Pierson S. Halstead

    In 1883 developer Pierson S. Halstead tore down two older buildings at Nos. 67 and 69 and hired architect James E. Ware to replace them. The new pair, finished in 1884, combined Renaissance Revival carving above the entrances and on the top floor with a neo-Grec three-story midsection of red brick and brownstone. The cast-iron storefront piers survive, though the carved entablatures over the doorways are gone.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1887

    November 24

    Ticket scalper James F. Hyde brawls with a rival outside the Fourteenth Street Theatre

    James F. Hyde lived at No. 67 and worked as a ticket speculator, the period term for a scalper. On the night of November 24, 1887, he found a rival, David Stack, working the crowd outside the Fourteenth Street Theatre and demanded he leave. The two grappled and Stack bit Hyde's thumb, after which Hyde reportedly hit him on the head with the butt of a revolver, and police arrested both men. A fellow resident, Martin W. Hanley, managed Harrigan's Park Theatre.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1922

    August 12

    A Hudson Dusters associate is fatally shot at a cafe, leaving a resident of No. 67 as a witness

    Patrick "Link" Mitchell, a trucking foreman living at No. 67 by 1922, was known to police as a former member of the Tanner Smith gang. On the night of August 12, 1922, he and Frank Wallace, a thrice-convicted Hudson Dusters member, cruised the Broadway area before ending up at the Cafe La Vie on West 48th Street, where Wallace was shot in the head and died an hour later. Mitchell was one of seven patrons held as material witnesses. In 1925 he was arrested on a gun charge after a revolver was handed to him at a Sixth Avenue club.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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