#formerstable

11.17.17 Lunchtime drawing: Archways where horses used to enter the Altman building at 135 West 18th Street, a former five-story stable built in 1896 to make deliveries for the nearby B. Altman department store.

7.17.17 Lunchtime drawing: The sculptor Frederick Triebel bought a horse stable in bad shape for his studio and installed a luminous north facing window in 1902 at no. 6 MacDougal Alley, a street once used as stables for the upper class residents of Washington Square North but ‘by the turn of the [20th] century The Sun called Macdougal Alley a "dirty, foul-smelling court," given over to "back-alley gamblers and the rougher element."’(1) (1)‪NYTimes, Streetscapes/6 Macdougal Alley; Studio, Once a Decrepit Stable, That Drew Artists to a Mews https://nyti.ms/2vuYMAP