John C. Hashagen House

129 Sullivan Street | also 186 Prince Street | SoHo | built 1831

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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. 1830

    Cartman Henry Hopper builds a Federal row house at the corner of Prince and Sullivan Streets

    Hopper, a cartman, built the two-and-a-half-story Flemish-bond brick house between 1830 and 1831. Grocer John C. Hashagen, who ran his shop on the ground floor and lived above, raised it to three stories in 1866 and four in 1869, adding the bracketed cornice. The stoop was removed and a ground-floor shop added, early changes that mirror the neighborhood's growing density.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1851

    July 16

    A club called the Old Tops of the Eighth Ward leaves from the corner grocery for a chowder outing

    The Old Tops of the Eighth Ward used grocer John C. Hashagen's corner as their headquarters, likely meeting in his rear extension. The New York Herald announced their annual chowder excursion to Sheepshead Bay for Wednesday, July 16, 1851, leaving at 4 a.m. on a six-horse stage from Kipp & Brown. Coaching was a fashionable pastime then, and the stage was driven by a man named Reuben.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1927

    June 24

    Federal agents trace gangsters tied to a million-dollar Greenwich Street warehouse fire to a Prince Street rooming house

    A five-alarm fire on June 24, 1927 swept the Bishop Warehouse Company building on Greenwich Street. Investigators concluded it was set deliberately to hide thefts of drugs and liquor, and federal agents followed the gang to No. 186 Prince Street. Alexander Psaki, 28, and John Courmalis, 30, were arrested and held on $50,000 bail each. A prosecutor said the gang had probably taken goods worth about a million dollars.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1965

    February

    Dance teacher Killer Joe Piro and a deejay living here launch a take-out discotheque service

    In February 1965 the New York Times reported on the city's discotheque craze and on a group of residents at 186 Prince Street. Dance instructor Killer Joe Piro, deejay Slim Hyatt and a group called the Porpoise offered to set up a discotheque in any home, club or hotel, supplying turntables, speakers and records for $50 an hour. The Williams Club had already hired them three times.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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