, three converted townhouses at 8–12 West 8th Street
8th Street East • 127
Avenue B, also known as 295 East 8th Street, on
Tompkins Square Park, was originally the Tompkins Square Lodging House for Boys and Industrial School. It was designed by
Vaux & Radford and built in 1887. The building later became the
Children's Aid Society Newsboy and Bootblacks Lodging House, and was briefly a
synagogue, Talmud Torah Darchei Noam. The building was restored in 2006, and is now apartments. The building was featured prominently in the 2002 film,
In America. • The
stucco-faced apartment building at 4–26 East 8th Street between Fifth Avenue and
University Place was built in 1834–36 and remodeled in 1916. It was designed by
Harvey Wiley Corbett, and has been described as a "stage set, symbolic of the 'village' of a bohemian artist." • The full-block building on 8th Street bordered by
Lafayette Street,
9th Street and
Broadway, which carries the addresses 499 Lafayette Avenue and 770 Broadway, was built in 1902 to be the Annex for the giant
John Wanamaker's Department Store located one block north between 9th and
10th Streets. The two buildings were connected by a skybridge over 9th Street which was dubbed the "Bridge of Progress". The main store was destroyed by fire in 1955, but the Annex building remains, and features retail space as well as offices. • Across the street, also between Lafayette Street and Broadway, 8th Street runs behind Clinton Hall at 13 Astor Place, also known as 21 Astor Place. This was once the site of the
Astor Opera House outside of which the
Astor Place Riot occurred. The Opera House opened in 1847 and closed in 1890 to be replaced by the current building, designed by
George E. Harney, which became the site of the
New York Mercantile Library. The library left the 11-story building in 1932, and it has since been a union headquarters (District 65 of the Distributive Workers of America), the Astor Place Hotel, and, as of 1995, condominiums.
West •
Marlton House at 3–5 West 8th Street between
Fifth and
Sixth Avenues in
Greenwich Village was built in 1900 as the Marlton Hotel, a
single room occupancy (SRO) facility. It was notable for its
bohemian clientele, but since 1987 it has been used as a dormitory for
The New School. • The three former 1838 row houses at 8–12 West 8th Street between Fifth Avenue and
Macdougal Street in Greenwich Village were converted in 1931 by Auguste L. Noel of Noel & Miller into the first home of the
Whitney Museum of American Art, which sculptor and heiress
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney had established in 1929, after the
Metropolitan Museum of Art rejected the donation of her extensive collection of contemporary and
avant-garde artworks. In 1914, Whitney had started the Whitney Studio at 8 West 8th Street, just behind her own studio on MacDougal Alley. The museum was located here until 1954, when it moved uptown. The building is currently, along with 14 West 8th Street (built in 1900), the
New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.
St. Mark's Place • #2 – Beginning in 1962 it housed
The Five-Spot, one of the city's leading
jazz clubs. Innovators such as
Thelonious Monk,
Charlie Parker and
Charles Mingus all appeared there. It later became "The Late Show", a vintage clothing store that was popularized by the
New York Dolls and owned by their valet, Frenchie. Punk rocker
GG Allin also lived in the building at some point. • #4 – The Hamilton-Holly House was built in 1831 by
Thomas E. Davis and sold to Colonel
Alexander Hamilton, the son of
Alexander Hamilton, first
Secretary of the Treasury, in 1833. From 1843 to 1863 it was owned by Isaac C. Van Wyck, the candle and oil merchant. The building was owned from 1863 to 1903 by butter merchant John W. Miller, who added a two-story addition and a meeting hall on the first floor. From 1901 until 1952 the building was owned by the C. Meisel company, a manufacturer of musical instruments. Between 1955 and 1967 it housed the Tempo Playhouse, New Bowery Theatre, and Bridge Theatre, noted for experimental theater, music, dance, and independent film. that operated in that location until 2016. The building was designated a
New York City landmark in 2004. Beginning in 1913 the building housed the Saint Mark's Russian and Turkish Baths. In 1979 the building was renovated and renamed the
New St. Marks Baths, a gay bath house. The New Saint Marks Baths was closed by the New York City Department of Health in 1985, due to concerns of HIV transmission. The building subsequently housed
Mondo Kim's from 1995 until early 2009. Since 2014, the building has been home to one a
Barcade location. • #8 – The New York Cooking School, founded by
Juliet Corson in 1876, was the country's first cooking school. It figured prominently in the city's first known
Mafia hit in Manhattan, the 1888 killing of Antonio Flaccomio, when it was La Triniria Italian Restaurant. The killer dined there with his victim, then stabbed him a few blocks away. before relocating to Brooklyn in 2021. • #12 – Designed by William C. Frohne and built in 1885, as the clubhouse for the '
(German-American Shooting Society). The facade says ' (Unity is strength). The building is a remnant of ''
(Little Germany), the home of many German immigrants from the mid-19th Century until the General Slocum'' disaster of June 15, 1904. The building was designated as a
landmark in 2001. In the late seventies it housed The New Cinema, featuring film and video by independent filmmakers, including
Eric Mitchell, Anders Grafstrom,
Scott and Beth B,
Jim Jarmusch, Charles Ahearn and
Amos Poe. • #13 – Home to
Lenny Bruce in the mid-1960s. From 1995 to 1999, the building was home to Coney Island High, a live punk rock music venue co-founded by
D Generation singer,
Jesse Malin, and notable for being the location of
No Doubt's first New York City performance in November 1995. • #17 – Site of the first
Hebrew-Christian Church in America, in 1885. The building also served as the second location for the
CBGB Fashions retail store from November 2006 through June 2008. • #20 – The
Daniel LeRoy House was built as part of an elegant row of houses in 1832, of which this
Greek Revival building is the only survivor. It is a
New York City Landmark (1969), • #24 – This was the original location of the
Limbo clothing boutique, which opened for business in 1965 and moved to #4 in 1967. • #75 – The Holiday Cocktail Lounge has had a range of visitors including
W. H. Auden,
Allen Ginsberg car parked on St Mark's Place, where founder
Jimmy McMillan lived until 2015 • #80 – Home of
Leon Trotsky. saw the premiere of ''
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown'' in 1967. Formerly the Jazz Gallery, site of the last performance by
Lord Buckley. Now also the home of The Exhibition of the American Gangster, a museum of the American Gangster. • #85 – The 1871 birthplace of painter and caricaturist
Lyonel Feininger. • #94 – Home of "UNDER St. Mark's Theater", an alternative performance venue and black box theater from the 1970s. • #96 & #98 – The
Led Zeppelin album
Physical Graffiti features a front and back cover design that depicts these two buildings, which feature carved faces.
Mick Jagger,
Keith Richards, and
Peter Tosh are seated in front of #96 in the music video for the
Rolling Stones song "
Waiting on a Friend". • #101 – From the mid-1970s to 1983, the poets
Ted Berrigan and
Alice Notley, who were married to each other, lived here. In Berrigan's "The Last Poem", he wrote: "101 St. Mark's Place, apt. 12A, NYC 10009/ New York. Friends appeared & disappeared, or wigged out/ Or stayed; inspiring strangers sadly died; everyone/ I ever knew aged tremendously, except me." • #102 – Home of independent filmmaker
Scott Crary. • #103 – Home of singer/performer
Klaus Nomi in the 1970s. • #104 – Location of the
Notre Dame Convent School from 1989 to 2002 and is now the site of George Jackson Academy. • #105 – Early 1860s home of
Uriah P. Levy, the first Jewish commodore of the
U.S. Navy and who was also known for purchasing
Monticello to work toward its restoration and preservation. • #122 – Former location of
Sin-é, a neighborhood café where
Jeff Buckley performed a regular spot on Monday nights. Other musicians such as
David Gray and
Katell Keineg also performed there. Sin-é closed in the mid-1990s. • #132 – Known at the time as St. Mark's Bar and Grill, this is the second location on the street to be used in the "Waiting on a Friend" video by the Rolling Stones. After several business changes at the address, a Rolling Stones-themed bar named Waiting on a Friend opened at the location in September 2018. However, by October 2019, the bar had permanently closed. ==Public transportation==