The Manhattan Kids Club
88 Washington Place | also 350 Avenue of the Americas, 88 West Washington Plce | Greenwich Village | built 1966
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- 1904
Painter John Sloan moves into an earlier house at 88 Washington Place
Painter John Sloan arrives in New York from Philadelphia in 1904 and spends almost a decade living and working at 88 Washington Place, in a building that predates the present one. His windows facing Lower Sixth Avenue give him an elevated view of street life, which he often works into his paintings. His 1924 painting "Flowers of Spring," now in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, shows a flower wagon on a rainy city street.
Source: Ephemeral New York
- 1925
Kriendler and Berns run the Club Fronton speakeasy in an earlier basement here
Cousins Jack Kriendler and Charles Berns, whose first speakeasy, the Red Head, burned, reopen in a basement at 88 Washington Place as the Fronton, in a building that predates the present one. The club has a Spanish theme and draws artists and writers, including Dorothy Parker and Edna St. Vincent Millay, as well as Mayor Jimmy Walker. The city condemns the property after about a year to make way for the West Fourth Street subway station, and the cousins move to midtown.
Source: Ephemeral New York
Further reading
- Spring flowers arrive on a rainy Village sidewalkEphemeral New York
- A Village speakeasy attracts a bohemian crowdEphemeral New York
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