What the wrecking ball reveals

When two low-rise buildings on 13th Street off Sixth Avenue were torn down this week, a long-lost sign for Garfield Building and Painting came back to life. Also reappearing (but now behind a construction fence): a four-story Federal back house dating from the 1790s.

Tags: back houses, West Village

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