14 Gay Street Reveals History | The Village View

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• BUILDG: 14 GAY STREET
• 14 GAY STREET REVEALS HISTORY
• DEMOLN UNRWAY AT 14 GAY STREET GREENWICH VILLAGE, MANHATTAN
• 14 GAY STREET
• 14 GAY STREET #1
• 14 GAY STREET EXT,WTWOOD, MA 02090
• 14 GAY STNEW YORK, NY 10014
• 14 -18 GAY ST,NEW YORK, NY 10014$9,211,080REDF ESTIMATE—BEDS—BATHS1,544SQ FT{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":["PRODUCT","SGLEFAYRINCE"],"NAME":"14 -18 GAY ST","ADDRS":{"@TYPE":"POSTALADDRS","STREETADDRS":"14 -18 GAY ST","ADDRSLOLY":"NEW YORK","ADDRSREGN":"NY","POSTALCO":"10014","ADDRSCOUNTRY":"US"},"OFFERS":{"@TYPE":"OFFER","PRICECURRENCY":"USD","PRICE":11200000,"URL":","AVAILABILY":"},"GEO":{"@TYPE":"GEOCOORDAT","LATU":40.7336421,"LONGU":-74.0005575}}PERFMETRICS.ADDROOT(19)ABOUT THIS HOMEBLOCK 593 LOTS: 48,47,44,43,42. THE CHARMG LANDMARK FERAL HO WERE ERECTED 1827-28 BY DANIEL H. WEED AND JOSEPH D. BALDW, BUILRS, ACTIVE THE NEIGHBORHOOD. THEY ARE BOTH TWO AND ONE-HALF STORI HIGH OVER A BASEMENT, AND EACH HOE HAS A CENTRAL DORMER WH A TRIPLE SASH WDOW, THE LATTER REPLACG THE PAIR OF DORMERS UALLY FOUND HO OF THIS PERD. THE FAS ARE EXECUTED FLEMISH BOND, CHARACTERISTIC OF THE FERAL PERD, AND THE STONE WDOW LTELS ARE FLH WH THE BRICKWORK. THE RELATIVELY SMALL MULLNED WDOWS ARE AMED WH EXTERR WDOW BLDS. THE ROOF RNICE OF NO. 14,IS ELABORATED BY SMALL BRACKETS WH FASCIA PANELS BETWEEN THEM, REPRENTG A LATER REPLACEMENT. THE HANDSOME DOORWAY AND THE WOOD STITNS APPEAR BEHD A PAIR OF SLENR DORIC LUMNS, AND THE TRANSOM BAR IS BROKEN FORWARD AT THE SIS TO RECEIVE THE BLOCKS SURMOUNTG THE LUMNS. ABOVE IS A RECTANGULAR TRANSOM AND A SIMPLER VERSN, WH FOUR PAN. NO. 14 WAS ERECTED FOR CURTIS HCHCK OF NEW YORK, A PLOUGH MANUFACTURER. NO. 16: THIS THREE-STORY AME HOE, WH A BRICK ONT, WAS ERECTED 1828. IT WAS ORIGALLY A TWO AND ONE-HALF STORY HOE, LIKE S NEIGHBORS AT NOS. 12 AND 14, AS MAY BE SEEN THE CHANGE OM FLEMISH BOND TO NNG BOND ABOVE THE SEND STORY. THE DIGNIFIED FERAL DOORWAY IS THIS SE EXTREMELY SIMPLE, RELIEVED ONLY BY THE FANLIGHT OF THE TRANSOM AND THE PANELG OF THE DOOR. THE MULLNED WDOWS ARE TYPIL OF THOSE FOUND FERAL HO. THE UPPER STORY AND THE MODILLNED ROOF RNICE WERE ADD AT A LATER DATE. THE ORIGAL IRONWORK HAS BEEN RETAED. THE HOE WAS ERECTED FOR FRANCIS BARRETTO, A WASHGTON STREET MERCHANT, WHO WAS ONE OF THE NOTABL WHO EQUENTED THE PARK THEATRE. NO. 18: BUILT BETWEEN 1827 AND 1831, THIS HOE STANDS ON THE REAR PORTN OF THE LOT OF NO. 16 CHRISTOPHER STREET. IT WAS ORIGALLY A THREE-STORY AME HOE WH A BRICK ONT. IN 1882 A FOURTH STORY WAS ADD, AND THE HOE WAS EXTEND. TH, SERV AS A TRANSN BETWEEN S LOWER NEIGHBORS ON ONE SI AND THE HIGHER BUILDG ON THE OTHER. THE WOOD REVEALS OF S SIMPLE DOORWAY ARE ATTRACTIVELY PANELED. THE LOW YARD RAILG HAS THE GREEK ET MOTIF AT THE BOTTOM. NO. 16: AN ATTRACTIVE BRICK HOE THE FERAL STYLE, THIS HOE WAS BUILT 1828. THE THIRD STORY WAS ADD NNG BOND AT A LATER DATE NTRAST TO THE FLEMISH BOND OF THE FIRST TWO FLOORS. THE RNICE, SUPPORTED BY MODILLNS AND BY SHORT BRACKETS, HAS PANELS THE FASCIA BOARD; NEO-GRE STYLE, IS TYPIL OF THE 1870?S. THE WDOWS HAVE THEIR ORIGAL MULLNED SASH. WDOW LTELS VARY AT EACH LEVEL, THOSE OF THE FIRST FLOOR HAVG THE SIMPLE DIGNIFIED PANELG OF THE FERAL STYLE, WHILE THOSE ON THE UPPER FLOORS ARE FLH AND UNRATED. THE SIMPLE GROUND FLOOR DOORWAY HAS BRICK REVEALS. THE HOE WAS EVINTLY BUILT BY ELIAS J. KENT, A MASON OF STANTON STREET. NO. 18 & 20: THIS PAIR OF CHARMG LTLE FERAL HO WAS BUILT 1827 BY DANIEL SIMONSON, A RPENTER WHO HAD PURCHASED THE LOTS THAT YEAR. THE TWO AND ONE-HALF STORY HO OF FLEMISH BOND BRICKWORK HAVE GAMBREL ROOFS, WHICH ARE NOW ECHOED BY THE ROOFS OF THE DORMERS. EACH HOE HAS A DORMER WDOW, WHICH IS TRIPLY DIVID WHILE S GABLE IS RATED WH A SUNBURST PATTERN. NO. 18 HAS THREE SIMPLE PANELS ON THE FASCIA BOARD OF S ROOF RNICE AND A PANELED DOORWAY WH FANLIGHT GIVG ACCS TO THE UPPER FLOORS. NO. 20 HAS S ORIGAL PANELED FERAL DOOR AND DOORAME WH PANELS REPLACG THE ORIGAL SILIGHTS. IN THE RNERS MAY BE SEEN THE ORIGAL SEMI-ENGAGED LONT, WHILE THOSE WHICH ONCE STOOD ONT OF THE PILASTERS ON EHER SI OF THE DOOR HAVE BEEN REPLACED BY BRACKETS AT THE TOP UNR THE TRANSOM BAR. AT BOTH HO THE CHARMG WOOD SHOP ONTS, WHICH WERE DOUBTLS ADD AT A LATER DATE, NSIST OF GLASS WDOWS AND RNER LONT SET UNR SMALL NTUO HOODS, WHICH SHELTER BOTH SHOW WDOW AND DOOR. IMPROVEMENT DCRIPTN: PROPERTI NSIST OF FIVE ADJACENT, 2.5 AND 3 STORY WALK UP RETAIL RINTIAL BUILDGS NTAG TWO RETAIL STOR AND 31 RINTIAL APARTMENTS NSISTG OF APPROXIMATELY 71+ TOTAL RINTIAL ROOMS, PL BASEMENTS. TOTAL BED GROSS BUILDG AREA OF APPROXIMATELY 10,961+ SQ. FT. ABOVE GRA, PL BASEMENTS. THESE BUILDINGS HAVE COMMON UTILITIES. SE DCRIPTN: PLOT SIZE BED IS 63.00? X 60.33? (IRREGULAR SHAPED LOTS), TOTAL LAND AREA OF 5,590+ SQUARE FEET. FRONTAGE ALONG BOTH GAY STREETS AND CHRISTOPHER STREET ARE 57.96+ FEET AND 63.00+ FEET RPECTIVELY, WH VARYG PTHS OF 60.33+ TO 61.67+ FEET. THIS SALE MAY BE SUBJECT TO COURT APPROVAL SIGN FOR TAILS PERFMETRICS.ADDROOT(20)SOURCE:PUBLIC RERDS PERFMETRICS.ADDROOT(21)HOME FACTSPROPERTY TYPETOWNHOEYEAR BUILT1910LOT SIZE990 SQ. FT.PRICE SIGHTSREDF ESTIMATE$9,211,080PRICE/$5,966PERFMETRICS.ADDROOT(22)PERFMETRICS.ADDROOT(23)PERFMETRICS.ADDROOT(24)HOMEOWNER TOOLSPERFMETRICS.ADDROOT(25)ADDNAL ROURCELECTRICY AND SOLARVIEW TIMATED ENERGY STS AND SOLAR SAVGS FOR THIS HOMEINTERVIEW INTER PLANS AND PROVIRS AVAILABLE FOR THIS HOMEPROVID BY DOWN PAYMENT ROURCE, WATTBUY, AND ALLCONNECTPERFMETRICS.ADDROOT(26)STREET VIEWDIRECTNSPERFMETRICS.ADDROOT(27)PERFMETRICS.ADDROOT(28)PROPERTY TAILS FOR 14 -18 GAY STUNLOCK 3 DETAILS

BUILDG: 14 GAY STREET

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.

14 GAY STREET REVEALS HISTORY

ImageDemoln recently began at 14 Gay Street.

DEMOLN UNRWAY AT 14 GAY STREET GREENWICH VILLAGE, MANHATTAN

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.

14 GAY STREET

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.

14 GAY STREET #1

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

14 GAY STREET EXT,WTWOOD, MA 02090

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 STNEW YORK, NY 10014

”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. Loted the Greenwich Village Historic District ss 14 Gay Street; a 22.

14 -18 GAY ST,NEW YORK, NY 10014$9,211,080REDF ESTIMATE—BEDS—BATHS1,544SQ FT{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":["PRODUCT","SGLEFAYRINCE"],"NAME":"14 -18 GAY ST","ADDRS":{"@TYPE":"POSTALADDRS","STREETADDRS":"14 -18 GAY ST","ADDRSLOLY":"NEW YORK","ADDRSREGN":"NY","POSTALCO":"10014","ADDRSCOUNTRY":"US"},"OFFERS":{"@TYPE":"OFFER","PRICECURRENCY":"USD","PRICE":11200000,"URL":","AVAILABILY":"},"GEO":{"@TYPE":"GEOCOORDAT","LATU":40.7336421,"LONGU":-74.0005575}}PERFMETRICS.ADDROOT(19)ABOUT THIS HOMEBLOCK 593 LOTS: 48,47,44,43,42. THE CHARMG LANDMARK FERAL HO WERE ERECTED 1827-28 BY DANIEL H. WEED AND JOSEPH D. BALDW, BUILRS, ACTIVE THE NEIGHBORHOOD. THEY ARE BOTH TWO AND ONE-HALF STORI HIGH OVER A BASEMENT, AND EACH HOE HAS A CENTRAL DORMER WH A TRIPLE SASH WDOW, THE LATTER REPLACG THE PAIR OF DORMERS UALLY FOUND HO OF THIS PERD. THE FAS ARE EXECUTED FLEMISH BOND, CHARACTERISTIC OF THE FERAL PERD, AND THE STONE WDOW LTELS ARE FLH WH THE BRICKWORK. THE RELATIVELY SMALL MULLNED WDOWS ARE AMED WH EXTERR WDOW BLDS. THE ROOF RNICE OF NO. 14,IS ELABORATED BY SMALL BRACKETS WH FASCIA PANELS BETWEEN THEM, REPRENTG A LATER REPLACEMENT. THE HANDSOME DOORWAY AND THE WOOD STITNS APPEAR BEHD A PAIR OF SLENR DORIC LUMNS, AND THE TRANSOM BAR IS BROKEN FORWARD AT THE SIS TO RECEIVE THE BLOCKS SURMOUNTG THE LUMNS. ABOVE IS A RECTANGULAR TRANSOM AND A SIMPLER VERSN, WH FOUR PAN. NO. 14 WAS ERECTED FOR CURTIS HCHCK OF NEW YORK, A PLOUGH MANUFACTURER. NO. 16: THIS THREE-STORY AME HOE, WH A BRICK ONT, WAS ERECTED 1828. IT WAS ORIGALLY A TWO AND ONE-HALF STORY HOE, LIKE S NEIGHBORS AT NOS. 12 AND 14, AS MAY BE SEEN THE CHANGE OM FLEMISH BOND TO NNG BOND ABOVE THE SEND STORY. THE DIGNIFIED FERAL DOORWAY IS THIS SE EXTREMELY SIMPLE, RELIEVED ONLY BY THE FANLIGHT OF THE TRANSOM AND THE PANELG OF THE DOOR. THE MULLNED WDOWS ARE TYPIL OF THOSE FOUND FERAL HO. THE UPPER STORY AND THE MODILLNED ROOF RNICE WERE ADD AT A LATER DATE. THE ORIGAL IRONWORK HAS BEEN RETAED. THE HOE WAS ERECTED FOR FRANCIS BARRETTO, A WASHGTON STREET MERCHANT, WHO WAS ONE OF THE NOTABL WHO EQUENTED THE PARK THEATRE. NO. 18: BUILT BETWEEN 1827 AND 1831, THIS HOE STANDS ON THE REAR PORTN OF THE LOT OF NO. 16 CHRISTOPHER STREET. IT WAS ORIGALLY A THREE-STORY AME HOE WH A BRICK ONT. IN 1882 A FOURTH STORY WAS ADD, AND THE HOE WAS EXTEND. TH, SERV AS A TRANSN BETWEEN S LOWER NEIGHBORS ON ONE SI AND THE HIGHER BUILDG ON THE OTHER. THE WOOD REVEALS OF S SIMPLE DOORWAY ARE ATTRACTIVELY PANELED. THE LOW YARD RAILG HAS THE GREEK ET MOTIF AT THE BOTTOM. NO. 16: AN ATTRACTIVE BRICK HOE THE FERAL STYLE, THIS HOE WAS BUILT 1828. THE THIRD STORY WAS ADD NNG BOND AT A LATER DATE NTRAST TO THE FLEMISH BOND OF THE FIRST TWO FLOORS. THE RNICE, SUPPORTED BY MODILLNS AND BY SHORT BRACKETS, HAS PANELS THE FASCIA BOARD; NEO-GRE STYLE, IS TYPIL OF THE 1870?S. THE WDOWS HAVE THEIR ORIGAL MULLNED SASH. WDOW LTELS VARY AT EACH LEVEL, THOSE OF THE FIRST FLOOR HAVG THE SIMPLE DIGNIFIED PANELG OF THE FERAL STYLE, WHILE THOSE ON THE UPPER FLOORS ARE FLH AND UNRATED. THE SIMPLE GROUND FLOOR DOORWAY HAS BRICK REVEALS. THE HOE WAS EVINTLY BUILT BY ELIAS J. KENT, A MASON OF STANTON STREET. NO. 18 & 20: THIS PAIR OF CHARMG LTLE FERAL HO WAS BUILT 1827 BY DANIEL SIMONSON, A RPENTER WHO HAD PURCHASED THE LOTS THAT YEAR. THE TWO AND ONE-HALF STORY HO OF FLEMISH BOND BRICKWORK HAVE GAMBREL ROOFS, WHICH ARE NOW ECHOED BY THE ROOFS OF THE DORMERS. EACH HOE HAS A DORMER WDOW, WHICH IS TRIPLY DIVID WHILE S GABLE IS RATED WH A SUNBURST PATTERN. NO. 18 HAS THREE SIMPLE PANELS ON THE FASCIA BOARD OF S ROOF RNICE AND A PANELED DOORWAY WH FANLIGHT GIVG ACCS TO THE UPPER FLOORS. NO. 20 HAS S ORIGAL PANELED FERAL DOOR AND DOORAME WH PANELS REPLACG THE ORIGAL SILIGHTS. IN THE RNERS MAY BE SEEN THE ORIGAL SEMI-ENGAGED LONT, WHILE THOSE WHICH ONCE STOOD ONT OF THE PILASTERS ON EHER SI OF THE DOOR HAVE BEEN REPLACED BY BRACKETS AT THE TOP UNR THE TRANSOM BAR. AT BOTH HO THE CHARMG WOOD SHOP ONTS, WHICH WERE DOUBTLS ADD AT A LATER DATE, NSIST OF GLASS WDOWS AND RNER LONT SET UNR SMALL NTUO HOODS, WHICH SHELTER BOTH SHOW WDOW AND DOOR. IMPROVEMENT DCRIPTN: PROPERTI NSIST OF FIVE ADJACENT, 2.5 AND 3 STORY WALK UP RETAIL RINTIAL BUILDGS NTAG TWO RETAIL STOR AND 31 RINTIAL APARTMENTS NSISTG OF APPROXIMATELY 71+ TOTAL RINTIAL ROOMS, PL BASEMENTS. TOTAL BED GROSS BUILDG AREA OF APPROXIMATELY 10,961+ SQ. FT. ABOVE GRA, PL BASEMENTS. THESE BUILDINGS HAVE COMMON UTILITIES. SE DCRIPTN: PLOT SIZE BED IS 63.00? X 60.33? (IRREGULAR SHAPED LOTS), TOTAL LAND AREA OF 5,590+ SQUARE FEET. FRONTAGE ALONG BOTH GAY STREETS AND CHRISTOPHER STREET ARE 57.96+ FEET AND 63.00+ FEET RPECTIVELY, WH VARYG PTHS OF 60.33+ TO 61.67+ FEET. THIS SALE MAY BE SUBJECT TO COURT APPROVAL SIGN FOR TAILS PERFMETRICS.ADDROOT(20)SOURCE:PUBLIC RERDS PERFMETRICS.ADDROOT(21)HOME FACTSPROPERTY TYPETOWNHOEYEAR BUILT1910LOT SIZE990 SQ. FT.PRICE SIGHTSREDF ESTIMATE$9,211,080PRICE/$5,966PERFMETRICS.ADDROOT(22)PERFMETRICS.ADDROOT(23)PERFMETRICS.ADDROOT(24)HOMEOWNER TOOLSPERFMETRICS.ADDROOT(25)ADDNAL ROURCELECTRICY AND SOLARVIEW TIMATED ENERGY STS AND SOLAR SAVGS FOR THIS HOMEINTERVIEW INTER PLANS AND PROVIRS AVAILABLE FOR THIS HOMEPROVID BY DOWN PAYMENT ROURCE, WATTBUY, AND ALLCONNECTPERFMETRICS.ADDROOT(26)STREET VIEWDIRECTNSPERFMETRICS.ADDROOT(27)PERFMETRICS.ADDROOT(28)PROPERTY TAILS FOR 14 -18 GAY STUNLOCK 3 DETAILS

Future may clu creatg a sgle-fay home, bg wh the neighborg property at 16 Gay Street, which is also available for sale to create a grand, approximately 40’-wi property or a mixture of rental or ndomium uns. Set between Waverly Place and Christopher Street, 14 Gay Street is loted the heart of the Greenwich Village, nveniently loted near some of the bt rtrants, shops, and cultural attractns such as Washgton Square Park, one of the most inic landmarks all of New York Cy. 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.