12 Gay St, New York, NY 10014 is currently not for sale. The 4,346 Square Feet sgle fay home is a -- beds, -- baths property. This home was built 1827 and last sold on 2007-09-11 for $4,500,000. View more property tails, sal history, and Ztimate data on Zillow.
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12 Gay StreetBetiful townhoe, once a “Pirate’s Den” speakeasy, is among Greenwich’s most hnted buildgs. Wele to New York Cy’s inic Gay Street, a short, twisted Manhattan road wt of 6th Avenue. But why New York Ghosts has clud on s chillg tour of Greenwich Village is bee Gay Street abounds wh history and lgerg paranormal activy.“A huge misnomer hangs over the orig of the name of Gay Street.”1 Its begngs have nothg to do wh the cy’s LGBT culture.
Gay Street, early days.Image Source: Bowery BoysAfter Gay Street was wined and beme an official “street” 1833, Feral ho began poppg up along s wt si. The enomy would take some ten years to rebound, and Gay Street began to slowly be populated.
Post-recsn, most of s rints were of Ain-Amerin scent, “many of them servants of the wealthy whe fai on Washgton Square.”3Gay Street soon tablished self as a place that celebrated the bohemian revolutn. The Pirate’s Den, loted at 12 Gay Street, was built 1827.
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Later, 12 Gay Street beme the home of several proment New Yorkers, cludg Deprsn-era NYC Mayor Jimmy Walker, Howdy Doody puppeteer Frank Paris, and the pulp-fictn novelist Walter Gibson.
More playboy than mayor, a dapper lookg Jimmy Walker.Image Source: “Wh s secretive, arched appearance and ceivgly quiet meanor,”4 Gay Street soon beme the natural choice for unrground drkg tablishments durg the prohibn era. In the 1920s, the rpt New York Cy Mayor, Jimmy Walker, purchased the buildg at 12 Gay Street to n a speakeasy he lled the “Pirat Den”. The notor Pirate’s Den of 12 Gay Street hosted numero dnken parti.Image Source: Image unrground parti thrown by the cy’s Mayor himself.
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Or perhaps many of the lgerg ghosts are simply victims of the playboy mayor’s displeasure and were murred by his croni.Durg the 1950s and 60s, acclaimed puppeteer Frank Parris moved his fay to 12 Gay Street. Howdy Doody was th soon born the basement of 12 Gay Street. Parris “also reported the smell of vlets and of yg onns when no one else was the hoe.”6 He would th eventually brg “six different mediums to the beviled hoe his efforts to solve the puzzle of the mystifyg phantoms, nois and odors.”7 12 Gay Street, aka The Pirate’s Den.Image Source: The Parris clan had one particularly chillg paranormal enunter while hostg guts at their home.
They ll him the Phantom of Gay Street.Wrer and stage magician Walter Gibson would like to thk that he is the “creator” of this spir.
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His alter ego, “The Shadow”, was “a crime-fightg vigilante wh psychic powers posg as a “wealthy, young man about town.”9 Some believe that Cranston has left the pag of Gibson’s work and manifted self as a real ghost on Gay Street! Lamont Cranston, aka The Shadow.Image Source: Ined, sce the 1920s, almost every person who lived at 12 Gay Street experienced somethg paranormal.
‘That place would be like movg to The Shg.’”10Today, the four bedroom apartment at 12 Gay Street serv as a private rince.