78 West 3rd Street

also 233 Thompson Street | Greenwich Village | built 1832

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.

1884
A c. 1832 Greek Revival house at 78 Amity Street, now West 3rd, is raised a floor and made a store and two-family home
Tax records list a house on this lot by 1832, assessed at $2,700, that was then numbered 80 Amity Street and by the 1850s was 78 Amity, a street later renamed West 3rd. In 1884 owner Alex Hunter had architect John P. Leo raise the building and level off its peaked attic to make a full third story, turning the single-family home into a store with dwellings for two families. A 1910 alteration filing shows a saloon on the premises.
“…converted to a store and dwelling for two families as part of an alteration that created a full third story from the original peaked attic…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1961
The West Third Street Theatre Restaurant opens, part of the off-off-Broadway scene growing in the Village
In 1961 a venue called the West Third Street Theatre Restaurant opened here at the corner of Thompson Street. The Landmarks Preservation Commission places it within the off-off-Broadway movement that was spreading through Greenwich Village in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and cites a February 1961 New York Times article on Off Broadway's offshoots.
“A “theatre restaurant” opened here in 1961, known as the West Third Street Theatre Restaurant.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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