Cy orrs moln of landmarked 14 Gay St., where Ruth McKenney penned ‘My Sister Eileen’ - Village Prervatn

Contents:

• DEMOLN UNRWAY AT 14 GAY STREET GREENWICH VILLAGE, MANHATTAN
• 14 GAY STREET REVEALS HISTORY
• DEMO PERMS FILED FOR 14 GAY STREET GREENWICH VILLAGE, MANHATTAN
• 14 GAY STREET
• 14 GAY STREET #1
• BUILDG: 14 GAY STREET
• CY ORRS MOLN OF LANDMARKED 14 GAY ST., WHERE RUTH MCKENNEY PENNED ‘MY SISTER EILEEN’

DEMOLN UNRWAY AT 14 GAY STREET GREENWICH VILLAGE, MANHATTAN

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.

14 GAY STREET REVEALS HISTORY

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. 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. 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.

DEMO PERMS FILED FOR 14 GAY STREET GREENWICH VILLAGE, MANHATTAN

Its driver, a private ntractor, said he was there to do work unr the road ont of 14 Gay Street.

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.

14 GAY STREET

”ImageRuth McKenney memorialized her dodgy subterranean apartment 14 Gay Street “My Sister Eileen, ” a llectn of stori about her adventur as a young wrer the cy that was published 1938 and spired the fizzy early 1950s mil “Wonrful Town, ” wh lyrics by Betty Comn and Adolph Green and mic by Leonard days, om the top floor of Ms. Furthermore, the cy is requirg that the moln of 14 Gay Street be done by hand and s material saved for e a renstctn that the cy and the Landmarks Prervatn Commissn will oversee. 14 Gay Street.

Photo by Michael YoungDemoln is progrsg on 14 Gay Street, a landmarked three-story rintial buildg  Greenwich Village, Manhattan.

The current owner, Nazarian Property Group unr the 14 Gay Street LLC, also owns the adjacent 16 Gay Street to the north and purchased both buildgs along wh three other nearby s for around $12 ln last April. A large perimeter fence had been stalled over the siwalk and onto Gay Street due to the risk of sudn llapse. Photo by Michael Young14 Gay Street.

14 GAY STREET #1

Photo by Michael Young12 and 14 Gay Street.

BUILDG: 14 GAY STREET

Photo by Michael Young12 Gay Street.

Photo by Michael Young16 Gay Street.

CY ORRS MOLN OF LANDMARKED 14 GAY ST., WHERE RUTH MCKENNEY PENNED ‘MY SISTER EILEEN’

In addn, illegal work had been performed on the foundatn walls of the adjacent 16 Gay Street that further damaged the buildg’s stctural tegry. A full vate orr was promptly issued and moln work began several days later unr the supervisn of the owner’s adjacent 16 Gay Street remas stcturally promised but is still standg.

14 and 16 Gay Street are loted wh walkg distance of the 1 tra at the Christopher Street statn, as well as the A, B, C, D, E, F, and M tras at the Wt 4th-Washgton Square statn. Subscribe to YIMBY’s daily e-mail Follow YIMBYgram for real-time photo updat Like YIMBY on Facebook Follow YIMBY’s Twter for the latt YIMBYnews14 Gay Street Archecture Constctn Update Nazarian Property Group New York Rintial. Communy protts epted late 2022 when news that the Cy Department of Buildgs (DOB) and the Landmarks Prervatn Commissn (LPC) had allowed the veloper to do illegal nstctn at 14 Gay Street that had endangered and neighborg buildgs.

14, 16 and 18 Gay St. THE DEMOLITION OF 14 GAY STREET, center, has endangered 12 Gay Street, left, and 16 Gay Street, right, both 200-year-old rinc.