87 7th Avenue South

also 18 Barrow Street | West Village | built 1923

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.

1961
A four-story house at 18 Barrow Street is cut to one story and opened through to Seventh Avenue South
In 1961 a one-story building was remodeled to run through the block to Barrow Street. It sits on what had been the rear yard of 18 Barrow Street, whose four stories were reduced to one in the same alteration. The 1969 district report describes a plain brick front with large windows and a doorway, and notes that the building served as a bar.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1982
A small sidewalk volcano is built over a steam-pipe leak outside the Buffalo Roadhouse
NY Songlines records a small volcano on the sidewalk in front of 87 Seventh Avenue South, that was constructed over a steam-pipe leak in 1982, when the Buffalo Roadhouse occupied the space. At the time of the guide, the building housed Sushi Samba Seven, and the volcano was described as long extinct.
Source: nysonglines.com

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