87 Christopher Street

West Village | built 1872

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1960
Playwright H. M. Koutoukas moves into 87 Christopher Street and stays for fifty years
Haralambos Monroe "Harry" Koutoukas settled into this apartment building around 1960, not long after coming to the city from upstate New York. Within a few years he was a fixture at Off-Off-Broadway venues, including Caffe Cino and La MaMa, where his plays were staged in the 1960s. He lived on Christopher Street until he died in 2010, and a plaque now stands by a tree in front of the building.
Source: NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project
1965
Yoko Ono and Tony Cox serve as superintendents of 87 Christopher Street, next door to Koutoukas
When Lisa Jane Persky's family moved into the five-floor walkup in 1965, Tony Cox answered the door as superintendent, with Yoko Ono, who had recently had their daughter Kyoko. Ono held Fluxus-style events here, including a rooftop piece called Morning Piece. Her apartment adjoined that of playwright Harry Koutoukas, who invited her in for tea after a quarrel with Cox that he could hear through the thin wall.
Source: dsps.lib.uiowa.edu

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