113 Thompson Street
SoHo | built 1843
Open on the map5 entries
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.
- 1843
Investor Henry S. Richards finishes a 14-room Greek Revival house, first rented by a Hoe
Henry S. Richards bought an unused lot behind the Second Associate Presbyterian Church in 1842 and built a three-story, brick-faced house on it purely as an investment. He advertised it for rent as it neared completion in 1843. Its first tenant appears to have been James C. Hoe, partner in the construction firm William Hoe & Son, who was still living here when his father died in 1849.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1871
Physician Jacob Rosenzweig, who rented the house in 1870, is later arrested in the sensational trunk mystery
The 1870 census found Polish-born physician Jacob Rosenzweig living here with his wife and three children. He moved to Second Avenue in 1871, and in late August a trunk left unclaimed at the Hudson River depot was opened to reveal the body of seamstress Alice Bowlsby, apparently dead after a botched abortion. Police traced the evidence to Rosenzweig, and the New York Times branded him a monster. A pamphlet about the case depicted his arrest.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1886
A lodger at this 40-bed lodging house is briefly suspected in a saloon murder a block away
By 1885 the house was a lodging house, and in 1886 it took 40 men a night at 10 to 15 cents a bed. After bartender Thomas Molloy was shot dead in a saloon at 162 Spring Street on March 9, 1886, a witness called the behavior of lodger Thomas Digney suspicious and he was arrested. Digney, a truck driver, was questioned at the Prince Street station and released.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1902
The New-York Daily Tribune appeals for Christmas toys for 65 immigrant kindergartners in the old house
By 1902 the house held a chapel and a kindergarten, run by the West Side Italian Settlement, where sixty-five children, many speaking little English, gathered five mornings a week. The Tribune printed a plea for toys that retold a teacher's story of five-year-old Freddie, whose mother could barely afford bread and who pretended his bread had jelly. A teacher's letter on January 5, 1903 thanked donors, and she wrote that Freddie now had real jelly.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1977
Anna Quindlen in the Times singles out a cookie pushcart near the OG restaurant
As the neighborhood on the edge of the SoHo artists' district turned trendy, Anna Quindlen wrote in the New York Times on April 22, 1977 about the OG dining room at this address. She picked out a pushcart of chocolate chip cookies that was habitually parked at Prince Street and West Broadway. The restaurant was replaced in 1982 by Omen-Azen, which served Kyoto-style Japanese food.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- From Lodging House to Sushi - 113 Thompson StDaytonian in Manhattan
Nearby
- 111 Thompson Street1 entry
- 172 Prince Street115 Thompson Street | 2 entries
- 109 Thompson Street3 entries
- 178 Prince Street1 entry
- 107 Thompson Street1 entry
- 180 Prince Street2 entries