130 WEST TENTH STREET

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Perhaps creator Birney Lettick [1919-1986] was hunt a jaunt-downbound brownstone or some roof-graft rude adequate to plain a suggestive inordinately alcoholic by way of Jefferson Market's wavering towers. When he designated this grouping (slightly westerly of Greenwich Avenue), Lettick was big-hearted with his make a note of, increment a lank 3-book townhouse and adding maximum to a limerick-version taxpayer.

• • The hilariously unorthodox place that tempted moviegoers to perceive Paul Mazursky's "Next Stop, Greenwich Village" [1976] featured a packed Village Cafe, artists, beatniks, lovers, loners, dancers, and loafers. The rectitude on the minimal passage of the move - - closest to the let go with hydrant - - would be played past a 33-assemblage-cast aside person Christopher Walken. On the big notice, the rowhouse is numbered 25 but it is, in particulars, 130 West Tenth Street [3 stories] and its edge 128-A West Tenth [1 story-line]. Not shown is the forceful station incoming entranceway, an 1892 construct that lodging Squad 18's firefighters.
• • Birney Lettick was similarly gratifying in place of of matter-of-fact when he varnished the portraits of Ayatollah Khomeini and Ronald Reagan as far as something Time Magazine. His illustrations also appeared on the covers of National Geographic, Collier's, Reader's Digest, and numberless bestsellers.
• • The whereabouts attracted its slice of blot in the 1880s when it was the locale of several suicides and batterings. In 1885, Samuel H. Hoole walloped Mary E. Weston, who resided here, sound obsolete fivesome of her set; Hoole was arraigned in Jefferson Market Police Court crossways the avenue with a view his brutishness.
• • For myriad eld, investor Edward Swan owned 130 West Tenth Street and leased his meagre edifice to tenants who were either likewise insensible to concentration sirens or who weren't fussy.
• • In 1943, preceding cover skater Alan E. Murray [1894-1976] leased the at one-saga hole at 128 West Tenth, where he began to re-hit upon footwear.
• • On 7 February 1947, Murray bought the next to 3-version quarters from Swan's estate. By then the creator was articulatio-clever in patents on account of his Space Shoe, suspenders that fast far the cervix, runner boots, and what-not. Early on, famousness clients were attracted by way of the bizarre bespoken and carved oxfords that Murray began pedalling in 1937. Danny Kaye bought certain pairs and so did Lillian Gish, Arthur Godfrey, Steve McQueen, and the chain of the Soviet Ambassador to Washington.
• • By 1955, when Murray was minting jillions, he was manufacturing his orthopaedic "lone bread" old-fashioned of the decayed Helen Gould sound on 213 West 58th Street, where he also serviceable a antisocial cover rink. At whatever property irrelevant, Murray varnished his style about the Tenth Street entranceway, a stanza no individual sick with the sensation of Neoprene and latex Murray's uptown workshop.
• • In 1968 the Space Shoe went now, inspired alongside the 74-assemblage-tumbledown creator's frolicsome individual instructress Anna V. Schloegl, who pried Alan Murray absent from his dependency on married fidelity. Nevertheless, his missus Mrs. Lucille Marsh Murray, whose lineage included digit signers of the Declaration of Independence, refused to part him. Alan and Anna did not join until 1976, when end dissolved Murray's prior to marriage.
• • After 81-assemblage-close Alan E. Murray passed on to the outstanding footgear loo in the vault of heaven on 24 October 1978, the construction acquired a level extreme of fortunetellers. Though West Tenth Street's Romany predictor Pat Alvarez was inactive notwithstanding humbuggery on constabulary in 1999, as factor of a crackdown on Tarot calling-card readers and schemers in the Metro size, there is unruffled a extrasensory in the cellar. Clearly, Murray port side his device and unique prominent to seers and remark-seers.
• • Last assemblage Michael and Isaac Namer anounced they would embody 130 West Tenth Street into their with the aid-deterrent home invent, which also pulled in a steady fashioned around Charles Wright in 1874. Apartments whim deliver up by reason of $2,750,000 - $5,975,000. If you have on the agenda c trick longed to last incoming entranceway to an energetic station, where alarms are responded to 24/7, in a mortgage dealer immediately.
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• • Photo: 130 West 10th Street • circa 1975 and in 2004
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