104 Grand Street
also 39 Mercer Street | SoHo | built 1884
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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.
- 1876
A saloon owner is arrested for selling liquor on a Sunday in the store that stood on this corner
By 1875 a two-story brick store stood on this corner of Grand and Mercer, where John Melchers ran a saloon. On March 12, 1876 police captain McDonnell told his patrolmen to watch liquor stores carefully, and Melchers was arrested under the Excise Sunday Law. The New York Herald reported that liquor had been pouring freely in the Grand Street saloon.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1890
A faucet left running all night in a pocketbook factory floods a tailor's trimmings store on the floor below
On March 22, 1890 Policeman Michael Savage saw water flowing out of the Mercer Street doorway, climbed a ladder to the fire escape, and traced it to a faucet left on in the Lapidus Brothers pocketbook factory. The water flooded Herbert West's tailor's trimmings store below, causing about $1,000 in damage, but spared John Lutz & Son's silks and the saloon on the ground floor. West told a reporter he would soon be sending Lapidus a bill.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1912
A bankrupt leather dealer is jailed for hiding $3,100 of stock, part of a crackdown on fraudulent bankruptcies
Harris Weisbaum, a leather merchant with offices here, declared bankruptcy in 1912, then was convicted of fraud on November 21 after hiding $3,100 of merchandise from auditors. Judge Mayer ordered him jailed until he handed the value over to creditors. Their lawyer said it marked the start of a movement by wholesale leather dealers to drive fraudulent bankrupts out of the trade.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- Rottmann's Saloon -- No. 104 Grand StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
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