My intention with the last blog post, The More Things Stay The Same was not to leave everyone with a cliff-hanger. Dan Eschenasy asked the obvious question: did the building in question fall down? The answer is no, it did not. 428 West 29th Street shows up on the land use maps in 1911, 1916, 1923, and 1930. It’s gone in the 1940 tax photo, replaced by a two-story garage. In the 1990s, the entire block was demolished for the south annex of the Morgan Facility of the postal service. The photo above shows the garage.
Here’s the 1916 map, showing (a) a side yard between 428 and its neighbor, which is why the building was able to develop a tilt, and (b) a wood shed in the rear yard.
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