828 Greenwich Street

West Village | built 1839

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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. 1839

    William R. Halsey builds 828 Greenwich Street for attorney Abraham Underhill

    The Landmarks Preservation Commission dates this house and its neighbor at No. 830 to 1838-39 and calls the pair the only survivors of a block-front row of Greek Revival houses. Neighborhood builder William R. Halsey put them up, No. 828 for Abraham Underhill, an attorney with an office at 14 Pine Street, and No. 830 for the merchant Isaac Jaques.

    “Nos. 828 and 830 were built, respectively, for Abraham Underhill, an attorney at 14 Pine Street…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1839

    Mirror-image Greek Revival houses share a stoop railing on Greenwich Street

    Halsey began a block-long Greek Revival row in 1838 and finished it a year later. At the north end, Nos. 828 and 830 were laid out as mirror images, their entrances side by side and their brownstone stoops sharing a central railing. Each rests on a brownstone English basement under three stories of orange-red brick.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1860

    May

    Mason James Stewart of 828 Greenwich Street testifies that a Broadway building is unsafe

    James Stewart, a mason whose family owned No. 828, was called in as an expert in May 1860 when a contractor complained that a neighboring Broadway building at No. 652 had a weak foundation. Stewart testified it was in very insecure condition. The New York Times called it the first case under the sanitary section of the Metropolitan Police Act on insecure buildings, and the tenants were ordered out by nightfall.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1903

    The Ninth Avenue El arrives outside 828 Greenwich Street, and the boarding house is fined

    The Ninth Avenue Elevated Railroad reached this stretch of Greenwich Street in 1903, running directly in front of this row of houses, and by then the neighborhood had declined and both houses took boarders. In 1906 No. 828 was fined for lacking fire escapes, according to the Tenement House Department. The El came down in 1940.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1964

    November

    Resident Fred Hamburger leaves 828 Greenwich Street for Mississippi and is jailed

    Fred Hamburger, who lived in an apartment at 828 Greenwich Street, went south to Columbus, Mississippi, to support the civil rights movement. In late November 1964 the Council of Federated Organizations said civil rights workers there were being charged with trumped-up offenses. The New York Times reported that Hamburger was arrested on two traffic charges and jailed.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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