Green Sixth Building

100 Avenue of the Americas | SoHo | built 1930

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1931

    Shampan & Shampan design an Art Deco loft building for developer Vivian Green

    Real estate operator Vivian Green develops a 16-story loft building at Sixth Avenue and Watts Street, hiring architects Shampan & Shampan. Completed in 1931 at a cost of about $2.5 million, the Art Deco building features geometric brick spandrels, cast concrete panels, and carved reliefs of craftsmen decorating its second-floor pilasters.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1932

    April

    Radio manufacturers move into the new Sixth Avenue loft building

    Radio companies Freed Radio Sales and Fulton Radio Corporation move into the recently completed loft building, joining printing firms such as Pyramid Engraving and ink maker J. Hoeffler & Co. The mix reflects the building's early role as a home for small manufacturers and printers just after its 1931 completion.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1932

    September

    A payroll courier is robbed of $461 near the building on Canal Street

    An employee of a firm in the building is robbed of the weekly payroll, $461 in cash, while returning from the bank on Canal Street, a sum worth roughly $10,600 today. The robbery occurs about a year after the loft building's 1931 opening, while it was filling with printing and radio tenants.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1952

    Publisher Simon & Schuster occupies space in the loft building

    By 1952 the publisher Simon & Schuster occupies space in the Sixth Avenue loft building, part of a long run of publishing and media tenants that follows the building's early printing and radio trades. Later occupants include mail-order record clubs and the theater-program publisher Playbill.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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