Demoln of historic Gay Street buildg prompts public outcry

DEMOLN UNRWAY AT 14 GAY STREET GREENWICH VILLAGE, MANHATTAN

Like other vulnerable landmarks across the cy, the hoe at 14 Gay Street — which helped spire the mil “Wonrful Town” — is beg molished. * 14 gay street demolition *

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTStreetspIn the Village, Another Piece of the Cy’s History Is Comg DownLike other vulnerable landmarks across the cy, the hoe at 14 Gay Street — which helped spire the mil “Wonrful Town” — is beg 1937, when this photograph was taken, 14 Gay Street and s siblg 16 Gay Street were already more than 100 years old. Today, there are only a few such ho left Greenwich Village — built the early 19th century for the merntile class, rather than the Abbott, via The New York Public LibraryOne Monday late November, prervatnists, policians, neighbors and looky-loos gathered at dk on Manhattan’s ty Gay Street, a slim crcent the heart of Greenwich Village, to prott the moln of a nearly 200-year-old hoe there. The place qutn, 14 Gay Street, is one of a clutch of six wsome but prer early 19th-century buildgs on Gay and Christopher Streets that were owned for s by Celte Mart, a sgular character voted to her properti and to the often eccentric st of tenants she Mart died late 2018, at 94, wh no will and no close relativ, so the cy took over her holdgs, sellg 14 Gay Street and s siblgs for about $9 ln to a buyer who flipped them last April to Lnel Nazarian, a 37-year-old veloper, for about $12 ln.

Nazarian has done foundatn work that has stabilized 14 Gay Street and imperiled s neighbors, so the cy has orred s moln, a slow, labor procs that began jt before Thanksgivg. ImageCelte Mart, who died 2018 at 94, owned six historic properti on Gay and Christopher Streets, cludg 14 Gay Street.

”The cy, along wh the Landmarks Prervatn Commissn, said a statement had approved plans for the work on Gay Street and that Mr. ”The buildg at 14 Gay Street dat to 1827; s siblgs, a year later. By then, Gay Street was an tegrated block, wh a large Black muny and a meltg pot of immigrants om Ireland, Denmark, France, Italy, Germany and Belgium.

DEMO PERMS FILED FOR 14 GAY STREET GREENWICH VILLAGE, MANHATTAN

Demoln is unrway on 14 Gay Street, a three-story historic stcture owned by Nazarian Property Group Greenwich Village, Manhattan. * 14 gay street demolition *

ImageDemoln recently began at 14 Gay Street. The cy has orred that the work be done by hand and the material saved for e a renstctn overseen by the cy and the Landmarks Prervatn Masuike/The New York TimAll six buildgs are landmarked — Gay Street is the Village’s historic district — but No.

14 GAY STREET

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Wh the help of his wife, Ramee, he turned the Gay and Christopher Street buildgs to a plex of furnished stud apartments, rated by Ramee and outfted wh slipvers and curtas sewn by their her short story “Mr. At one pot, he hung a sign his office at 16 Gay Street clarg this policy.

However, she was never the most assiduo steward of the Jeanne Kelly, the former director of fossil preparatns at the Amerin Mm of Natural History and a Gay Street neighbor for two s, put , they were held together wh sp and a prayer, and the haphazard mistratns of a retue of helpers that at one pot clud a super who was bld and a physics teacher wh a number of Ms. Its driver, a private ntractor, said he was there to do work unr the road ont of 14 Gay Street.

DEMOLN UNRWAY AT 14 GAY STREET GREENWICH VILLAGE, MANHATTAN

Demoln is progrsg on 14 Gay Street, a landmarked three-story rintial buildg Greenwich Village, Manhattan. Loted the Greenwich Village Historic District, the 196-year-old stcture was emed at risk of imment llapse by the cy and was orred to be immediately molished. The current owner, Nazarian Property Group unr the 14 Gay… * 14 gay street demolition *

Across the street, Joan Goldberg, a broker wh Brown Harris Stevens, was holdg a quasi-open hoe at 13 Gay Street, a most Greek Revival built around 1840 and owned by Margaret Kunstler, the widow of the civil rights lawyer William Kunstler, who died 1995 and was known for reprentg some ntroversial clients.