133 Grand Street

also 21 Crosby Street, 19 Crosby Street | SoHo | built 1822

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1. 1822

   A Federal-style house goes up around 1822 at the corner of Grand and Crosby Streets

   The four-story brick building at 133 Grand Street was built around 1822 as one of a row of ten dwellings running from 133 to 151 Grand Street. It is one of several Federal-era houses surviving in the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District Extension, with Flemish bond brickwork and paneled stone lintels. The fourth story and bracketed cornice were probably added around 1850, as the area turned commercial.

   “…built in c.1822 as part of a row of ten dwellings from 133 to 151 Grand Street…”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1856

   Police arrest men and women at 133 Grand Street for dancing and carousing in 1856

   By the 1850s the former house at 133 Grand Street held a carpentry shop, and in 1856 several men and women were arrested on the premises for noisy, disorderly dancing and carousing. The LPC reads the arrest as a sign that the neighborhood had lost its standing as a good residential area and become part of the city's red light district.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 1907

   A military clothier, a pawnbroker and a brewery work the ground floor at 133 Grand Street

   By the mid-to-late nineteenth century the ground floor of 133 Grand Street had become a shop. It housed a military clothing store in 1874, a pawn shop in 1888, a leather goods shop in 1902 and a brewery in 1907. The upper stories became small manufacturing lofts, and today there is an Asian food market at street level.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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