831 Washington Street
West Village | built 1880
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1880
Michael Lawless and James McComb are the lessees when the Astor family builds up the blockfront in 1880
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The Astor family had owned this part of the Washington Street blockfront since 1819, and in 1880 it was developed with market buildings. The lessees were Michael Lawless, a produce dealer, and James McComb, an English-born man listed in the census as a "produce business boarder". Their early neighbors in the trade were produce and liquor dealers as well.
“The lessees were James McComb, an English-born "produce business boarder," and Michael Lawless, produce dealer. Other early commercial tenants were also produce and liquor dealers.”
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