South Village Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

One of 601 National Register listings published here for New York County · listed in 2014 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly Bedford, Carmine, Downing, Grand, Jones, Leroy, MacDougal, Prince, W. 3rd, W. Houston Sts., LaGuardia Pl., Manhattan, 10012
When was it listed? February 2014
Category. district
Borough. Manhattan
National Register reference number. 14000026 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1898 to 1986

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering South Village Historic District, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet covering South Village Historic District, surveyed 1898

Fires near this property

1,117 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,117 fires within 5 miles of South Village Historic District between 1995 and 2020, burning about 401 acres in total. 74 started naturally. 91 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	697
Arson/incendiarism	91
Smoking	78
Natural	74
Equipment and vehicle use	56
Debris and open burning	44
Misuse of fire by a minor	32
Fireworks	23
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Recreation and ceremony	7
Other causes	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
9 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in New York County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of South Village Historic District: 7 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Graphite, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
49th St & 1st Ave Beryl Deposit	Beryllium	Occurrence
64th St & 10th Ave Stilbite Deposit	Zeolites	Occurrence
69th/70th Sts & 2nd Ave Deposit	Iron, Garnet, Titanium	Occurrence
Dixon Crucible/ Jersey City, N.J.	Graphite	Unknown
General Metallic Oxides/Jersey City	Manganese	Unknown
Manhattan Island Occurrence	Molybdenum	Occurrence
Gallo Asphalt Co.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer	1850, 1985
John S. Lane and Son's Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	1897
Week's Trap Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	1898
2nd St & 4th Ave Siderite Deposit	Iron	Occurrence

Every working recorded in New York County

Maps showing this location

16 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1898 USGS Staten Island quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000
1900 USGS Staten Island quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1905 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000 - 4 printings
1942 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1947 USGS Jersey City quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Jersey City quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Jersey City quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1984 USGS Newark quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Newark quadrangle1:100000

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
House at 203 Prince Street	under 500 feet	1983
MacDougal-Sullivan Gardens Historic District	under 500 feet	1983
Charlton-King-Vandam Historic District	under 500 feet	1973
Houses at 83 and 85 Sullivan Street	0.2 miles	1980
Caffe Cino	0.3 miles	2017
E. V. Haughwout Building	0.3 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000026 in Record Group 79.
New York County	All 601 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.