769 Greenwich Street

also 769 1/2 Greenwich Street, 98 Bank Street, 769A Greenwich Street | West Village | built 1839

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.

1838
A mason buys land on Bank Street and sells the corner lot to carpenter George Youngs
At the end of 1838, William Buckland, a mason, bought the land for a row of three Greek Revival houses on Bank Street. He was taxed for Nos. 94 and 96, possibly working with George Youngs, a carpenter who bought the corner lot from him. The corner house at Greenwich Street later absorbed No. 96 into a single dwelling.
“The row was built on land purchased at the end of 1838 by William Buckland, mason, who was taxed for Nos. 94 and 96…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1839
George Youngs builds a pie-shaped Greek Revival house at Greenwich and Bank Streets
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This three-story Greek Revival house, also numbered 96 Bank Street, went up in 1839 in Flemish-bond brick. It was built for George Youngs, a builder, and probably by him. Its wedge-shaped plan and blank sidewall hint that it once had a steep pitched roof with a gable.
“…built in 1839 in Flemish bond, for and probably by George Youngs, a builder.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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