My family used to live on Horatio Street back in the 1860′s. Their house 69 Horatio Street was shared by the Walling and Oterson family. Having been doing my genealogy, I realized this family was one of my missing branches. Does anyone have pictures of the house today or even from back then. I would love to add it to my genealogy and hopefully one day be able to go and visit. I live in Houston, Texas and have never been to the “Big Apple”.

My family came from New Jersey in the 1850′s before setting in New York in 1855. John Oterson married Louisa Anderson and they had 6 children. Louisa, John, Eunice, Carrie, and John their son are now buried in New Jersey. It was said that Thomas Walling was a relative of Louisa. Thomas was a Poultry Dealer and John (the husban) was a hotel keeper.

Would appreciate if there is any information out there regarding my family or even pictures. Email me.
James Anderson

1925 Actor Walter Huston searches for The Fountain at the Greenwich Village Theatre. This Eugene O’Neill drama directed by Robert Edmond Jones deals with Ponce de Leon’s search for the Fountain of Youth. It will run for 28 performances.

Many of her memories revolve around Horatio street, where she had her first apartment in the West Village. Most shocking (striking?) to me was the following description of Horatio Street:

When I lived on Horatio, crazy, obese Lucille, “the mayor of Horatio St.” who was murdered in the 1990s, would go through the garbage and read out loud, with commentary, in a sort of street theater performance the letters, bank statements, bills and warning notices of whichever neighbors she was fighting with at the time. Horatio St. in those days was a cesspool; the stench of blood, spilled offal and rotting meat from the Meat Market was so overpowering, not only did you not want to sit on your stoop, you also often didn’t want to open your window.

Does anyone else remember these days, either fondly or otherwise?

Nos. 110-112 Horatio Street, in the middle of the block – the only older building left on the south side of the block. If you look way up at the top, you can just make out four decorative terra-cotta panels on the theme of painting. They’re there because the building was part of a complex built for F.W. Devoe & Co., paint manufacturers. One of the last sections left of what was once an enormous group of buildings, 110-112 Horatio became a warehouse in 1920, and remained one until its 1984 conversion to residential use.

Found in an online walkting tour of the Gansevoort Market.