{"id":67,"date":"2010-08-02T16:31:10","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T21:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mindfulwalker.com\/?p=67"},"modified":"2010-12-13T19:51:44","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T00:51:44","slug":"savoring-leroy-streets-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mindfulwalker.com\/wordpress\/explore-new-york\/savoring-leroy-streets-details","title":{"rendered":"Savoring Leroy Street’s Details"},"content":{"rendered":"

Often a street in New York just beckons you to walk down. Leroy Street in Greenwich Village is one of those places. On a walk down Leroy Street between Bleecker and Bedford streets and then around the corner, noise peeled away and the buildings drew my eyes to their features. It\u2019s another era, no longer 2010. On the building fronts, one sees a New York of details, colors, facial expressions, and bits of evidence of past lives.<\/p>\n

Here’s a look:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Terra<\/a><\/p>\n

This intricate terra cotta panel is on the front of a five-story building at 23 Leroy St.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Detail<\/a><\/p>\n

Is this Adam with the snake, on the front of 23 Leroy St.?<\/strong> The image certainly conveys a powerful scene — human fear and fierceness as the snake threatens so closely.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Figure<\/a><\/p>\n

This watchful figure is atop the entrance of 15 Leroy St.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Gargoyles<\/a><\/p>\n

Gargoyles and animal figures animate the top of the building at 15 Leroy St.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Geometric<\/a><\/p>\n

Geometric patterns enliven the brickwork at 26-28 Leroy St.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Federal<\/a><\/p>\n

This Federal-style rowhouse at 7 Leroy St. has a separate doorway built as a “horse walk,” allowing passage to a structure at the rear of the property.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The house at 7 Leroy St. tells of an early 19th century time of horse travel and a small city stretching northward from Lower Manhattan. Jacob Romaine built this two-and-a-half story Federal-style rowhouse around 1830. At the time, residents of Lower Manhattan were seeking to escape from the regular cholera outbreaks that were occurring in the densely populated neighborhoods at the southern tip of the island, according to a New York Landmarks Conservancy report<\/a> on Federal-era houses of Lower Manhattan.<\/p>\n

The house is an intriguing snapshot of New York City’s social history and changes. The house possesses a separate entrance, through a wooden door, to a “horse walk,” commonly used to get to a stable, carriage house, or other structure in the rear of such dwellings. The building behind the rowhouse was most likely another house, not a stable, the Conservancy states. By 1860, the census recorded that 12 people lived in this house and another two people in the structure behind it, according to the New York Times<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

In today’s Greenwich Village, the landmarked building and property are definitely upscale. The front house and the two-story carriage house at the rear recently sold for $3.9 million, Curbed <\/em><\/a>reported.<\/p>\n

\"Doorway<\/a><\/p>\n

The wooden door at 7\u00bd Leroy St. leads to a passageway to a carriage house in the rear.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Close-up<\/a><\/p>\n

Notice the knotty wood, rough brick, and the “7\u00bd” on a ceramic marker at\u00a07\u00bd Leroy St.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Eyebrow<\/a><\/p>\n

This “eyebrow colonial” sits at 42 Bedford St., around the corner from Leroy Street.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Lion<\/a><\/p>\n

This decorative panel with a not-so-ferocious lion is on a house on nearby Morton Street.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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View the slide show<\/a> larger in Flickr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Often a street in New York just beckons you to walk down. Leroy Street in Greenwich Village is one of those places. On a walk down Leroy Street between Bleecker and Bedford streets and then around the corner, noise peeled away and the buildings drew my eyes to their features. It\u2019s another era, no longer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,24,28,8],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-explore-new-york","tag-architecture","tag-historic-preservation","tag-landmarks","tag-manhattan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2PDqY-15","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mindfulwalker.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mindfulwalker.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mindfulwalker.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mindfulwalker.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mindfulwalker.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mindfulwalker.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mindfulwalker.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mindfulwalker.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mindfulwalker.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}