Fulton Building

130 Fulton Street | also 87 Nassau Street, 134 Fulton Street | Financial District | built 1900

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

  1. 1891

    De Lemos & Cordes build the curved Renaissance Revival Fulton Building

    Begun in 1891 and finished two years later, the Fulton Building was designed by De Lemos & Cordes, who had done 90 Nassau Street across the way. Its rusticated limestone base carries tan brick and terra cotta, and the rounded corner needed custom bowed glass for the windows. The building became co-ops in 2005, when a four-story rooftop addition was added that the blog's author says spoils the original proportions.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1893

    September 13

    Unpaid Italian laborers and their wives besiege a lawyer's office in the building

    In September 1893 attorney Julius Lipman refused to pay a contractor's full bill for work on an estate property, so the contractor could not pay his Italian laborers. At about noon on September 13, a crowd of workers and their wives descended on the Fulton Building to demand their wages. Lipman gave up arguing and left, and the New York Times reported that the janitor finally cleared the building.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1893

    Two teenage boys swap stamps in Walter Scott's shop, and he has them arrested

    Walter S. Scott, a rare-stamp dealer with a shop in the building, noticed valuable stamps going missing in the winter of 1893. Henry Cunningham and Harry Chase, both under 15, would ask to see stamp books and slip in a cheap stamp for a rare one, netting $300 to $400. They sometimes sold Scott's own stamps to his father, who ran a shop around the corner. Scott caught them in mid-February and had them arrested.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1900

    A tenant lawyer's false name lands his fiancee in Bellevue after a suicide attempt

    Bonford Boniface, an attorney with an office in the Fulton Building, met Adelle Cram in Central Park in 1900 and promised to marry her, giving his name as William Bennett. Trapped in the lie, he wrote that he faced an operation; a friend then wrote that he had died. Cram was found overcome by gas in a Grand Union Hotel room and revived at Bellevue Hospital. She still faced an attempted-suicide charge before any wedding could take place.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1908

    August 5

    A detective founds an anti-Black Hand bureau in his Fulton Building offices

    Italian detective Gerardo Luisi, working from his offices in the building, organized a new society on August 5, 1908 to fight Black Hand extortion. He called it the National Secret Service Information Bureau. The Tribune reported that it would work alone, without help from Police Commissioner Bingham's Italian detectives, and run its own private detective system.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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