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Saint Luke's Place
Manhattan > Greenwich Village > Saint Luke's PlaceSaint Luke's Place rowhouses [Nos. 5-16] were built in the early 1850s.* * No. 6: The former residence of "The Night Mayor," dapper gentleman...
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30 East 55th Street
Manhattan > Midtown > East 55th StreetPolly Adler [1900-1962] During the 1920s, Russian-born bordello-owner Polly Adler was arrested repeatedly and escaped conviction until the 1930s, thanks to...
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201 West 52nd Street
Manhattan > Midtown > West 52nd StreetFamous star and sheik of the screen Rudolph Valentino was feted on the second floor of this building on 52nd Street east of Broadway on Sunday night, July...
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107 West 45th Street
Manhattan > Midtown > West 45th StreetCrowd Sees Club LockedEl Fey Entertainers to Spend the Interim in Vaudeville[17 April 1925 N.Y. TIMES]The El Fey Nightclub at 107 West 45th Street, one of...
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64 East 34th Street
Manhattan > Midtown > East 34th Street Bert Savoy [born Everett McKenzie in 1888, Boston, MA] polished his performance persona in Alaska, warming up along the Yukon Trail. When Savoy arrived in...
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224 West 4th Street
Manhattan > Greenwich Village > Sheridan SquareGreenwich Village Theatre: 1917 - 1930It was the summer of 1922 and Mae West was about to celebrate her 29th birthday. Hungry for stardom and going...
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86 Bedford Street
Manhattan > Greenwich Village > Bedford StreetThis article was published in The Villager:From activists and authors to madams and madwomen: The prisoners of Sixth AvenueBy LindaAnn...
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12 Gay Street
Manhattan > Greenwich Village > Gay StreetGhost-busters are useless on Gay Street, especially at number 12. Author Kelley Roos fictionalized the real live -- or real dead -- incidents here in The...
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57 East 54th Street
Manhattan > Midtown > East 54th StreetBuilt in 1888, this well-preserved "grand dame" of a rowhouse was originally built as a set of identical 19th-century brownstoned triplets. Always in the...
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53 West 9th Street
Manhattan > Greenwich Village > West 9th StreetBuilt in 1899, this 16-foot skinny mini was perhaps too narrow to cut up into cellblocks -- er, studio apartments. Therefore, the 4-story property...
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11 Bank Street
Manhattan > Greenwich Village > Bank StreetGhost-busting turned the corner on Bank Street during ceiling renovations at number 11.• • Mystery maven Elizabeth Bullock, who worked at Farrar and...
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37 West 10th Street
Manhattan > Greenwich Village > West 10th StreetMarital misery ruled the roost here. Painted a dismal "Pepto Bismol" pink currently, this townhouse refuses to blend in with its neighbors. The...
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11 Fifth Avenue
Manhattan > Greenwich Village > Fifth AvenueBefore leaving from Greenwich Village for the ill-fated "Winter Dance Party" (a quickie Midwest concert tour) on 20 January 1959, Buddy Holly had been...
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35 West 64th Street
Manhattan > Midtown > West 64th StreetJack "Legs" Diamond (1897 - 18 December 1931), also known as Gentleman Jack, was the alias of John T. Nolan, an Irish-American gangster based out of New York...
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133 East 56th Street
Manhattan > Midtown > East 56th StreetIn palmier times, a well-regarded restaurant was located on the street level: Madame Romaine DeLyonn. Food writer Clementine Haskin Paddleford [1900 - 1967]...
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218 Lafayette Street
Manhattan > SoHo > Lafayette StreetIn 1868, when this sleepy tumble-down thoroughfare was still called ELM STREET, a group of actors fond of drinking founded a fraternal order - - The Benevolent...
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21 East 9th Street
Manhattan > Greenwich Village > East 9th StreetBuilt during the 19th century for America's royalty, the 30-feet-wide rowhouse at 21 East 9th Street [between Fifth Avenue & University Place]...
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205 West 54th Street
Manhattan > Midtown > West 54th StreetSpirits that broke the law of probabilities rather than the Volstead Act appeared early yesterday morning at Texas Guinan's Club Intime [203 West 54th...
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72 Washington Square South
Manhattan > Greenwich Village > Washington Square SouthThe Washington Square of Henry James meant the genteel northern edge. Across the park, the southern side was for bohemians. One building was...
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52 West Eighth Street
Manhattan > Greenwich Village > 52 West 8th StreetContributing to the retail meltdown on the once desirable stretch of West Eighth Street [between Sixth Avenue & Fifth Avenue] comes this bad...
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20 Fifth Avenue
Manhattan > Greenwich Village > 20 Fifth AvenueOnce part of Sir Peter Warren's Farm - - before it was sectioned off into an avenue and its right-angled side streets - - the site that shows the...
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146 West Fourth Street
Manhattan > Greenwich Village > 146 West Fourth StreetWhen the Corcoran Group unloaded a 2-bedroom co-op advertised during 2000 for $835,000.00 "in a pre-war loft building" at 146 West 4th...
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130 West Tenth Street
Manhattan > Greenwich Village > West 10th StreetPerhaps artist Birney Lettick [1919-1986] was seeking a run-down brownstone or any roof-line low enough to show a blue sky spiked by Jefferson...
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