132 Sullivan Street

also 132 1/2 Sullivan Street | SoHo | built 1900

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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.

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  1. 1863

    Grocer John J. Borger appears to build a four-story tenement beside his house on Sullivan Street

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    The Landmarks Preservation Commission thinks John J. Borger, a grocer who lived at 191 Prince Street on the same lot, built a four-story brick building facing Sullivan Street in 1862-1863. Tax assessments show his Federal-era house had been alone on the lot until 1863, and the 1870 census lists several families at the new address, so it was a tenement from early on. Trow's city directory for 1862-1863 already listed it as 132 1/2 Sullivan Street, and a store occupied part of it by 1908.

    “Tax assessments show that it was the only house on the lot until 1863, when this four-story house was built.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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