90 West 3rd Street

also 237 Sullivan Street | Greenwich Village | built 1879

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

1. 1879

   Three matching tenements go up on the Sullivan Street corner, later merged into one building

   Charles Sturtzkober designed tenements here in 1879 for Henry Shlobohm, each for three families. A 1939 tax photograph shows three nearly identical buildings, at 237 and 239 Sullivan Street and 241 Sullivan (90-92 West 3rd Street). Around 1956 they were combined and altered so heavily that they now read as a single apartment building.

   “The three structures were combined and altered beyond recognition c. 1956 into the present, unified apartment building.”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1961

   Bob and Jim Gibson and Roy Silver start the New Concepts folk booking agency at 237 Sullivan Street

   In 1961 the brothers Bob and Jim Gibson and Roy Silver founded an agency called New Concepts in this building. They aimed to book folk performers who had struggled to find work on their own. The agency's clients included David Crosby, Bob Dylan and Richie Havens, according to the South Village designation report.

   “…started an agency called New Concepts at 237 Sullivan Street, with the mission of booking folk artists who previously had difficulty booking themselves…”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 1963

   The Paper Book Gallery at 90 West 3rd Street sells Beat poetry and stays open past midnight

   During the late 1950s and early 1960s a storefront at 90 West 3rd Street held the Paper Book Gallery, a paperback shop that grew to four Greenwich Village locations by 1963. Its stock included Beat poetry. The shop kept hours after midnight and on Sundays to serve the demand, as the South Village report describes.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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