116 Duane Street
Tribeca | built 1915
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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.
- 1841
A shoemaker advertises to fashionable ladies at an earlier house on the site of 116 Duane Street
Before the present building, a brick-faced house stood at 116 Duane Street. On July 22, 1841, a notice in the New-York Tribune invited ladies who cared about footwear to visit the shoemaker working there. Tom Miller of Daytonian in Manhattan suggests this may be an early sign of the shoe district that later spread through the Duane Street neighborhood.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1893
A marquise's widower sells 116 Duane Street and its neighbor for $250,000
Adele Hutton, one of the first New York socialites to marry into European nobility, became the Marquise de Portes and owned 114 and 116 Duane Street while living in Paris. After she died on Christmas Eve 1892, her husband Comte Henri de Portes sold both buildings to Hoffman Brothers. The Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide noted the sale on May 27, 1893, at a price that reflected the area's new role as the shoe district.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1914
Benjamin E. Stern replaces a marble front with beige brick on a Badger cast iron storefront
The building went up in 1862 as a five-story marble-faced commercial building with a cast iron storefront made by Daniel D. Badger's firm. In 1914 owner Daniel P. Morse hired architect Benjamin E. Stern to update it, and Stern covered the marble with beige brick and wide windows. He left Badger's storefront in place, and it survives under roll-down gates. Concord Shoe Company leased the ground floor that October.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1942
Detectives catch an elderly mail thief who had stolen a check meant for a Duane Street tenant
William Conklin, 66, looked like a grandfather but had 28 arrests and 21 convictions dating to 1898. In January 1942 he began looting mailboxes in Tribeca for checks. Detectives caught him on February 13 after a six-week stakeout. Among the thefts he confessed to was a $557.48 check payable to the S. Weinstein Supply Company, hardware dealers who had moved into 116 Duane Street in 1937.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1947
A shoe buyer and his sons post bail on a charge of bribing a surplus-property official
On January 23, 1947, Myron and Jules Arronson and their father, George F. Arronson, a shoe buyer, all tenants at 116 Duane Street, posted $5,000 cash bail. The federal government charged them with conspiring to bribe a War Assets Administration official. The New York Times reported they were accused of offering $20,000 to help them buy nearly $1,000,000 of surplus steel, textiles and shoes by fraud.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- A Century of Shoes - No. 116 Duane StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
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