833 Washington Street

also 38 Little West 12th Street | West Village | built 1880

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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.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1944

    Kennedy loses the market buildings to foreclosure and meat and veal firms fill them for decades

    Dennis P. Kennedy, who had bought the Astor blockfront in 1938 and had it altered in 1940, lost 833 Washington Street and its neighbors to foreclosure in 1944. The Gansevoort Holding Co. took them over. Meat-trade firms filled the buildings afterward, among them the Loew Ave. Beef Co., J&J Meat Co., Republic Veal Boning Corp. and W. Greenbaum Co.

    “Kennedy lost all of these properties to foreclosure in 1944, however, and they were acquired by the Gansevoort Holding Co. Most later tenants were in the meat business…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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