135 West Broadway

Tribeca | built 1810

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1810
Mason Richard Kidney builds a small house at what is now 135 West Broadway
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About 1810 the mason Richard Kidney built this house on land leased from James Morris, one of four modest houses he put up on the block. It measured only 17 by 30 feet and was then numbered 73 Chapel Street. The city's 1812 directory lists the merchant Peter Carion here. The Landmarks Preservation Commission calls it the only structure left in the district from the first period of building.
“The sole surviving structure from this period in the district, 135 West Broadway, was one of four modest houses on West Broadway between Duane and Thomas Streets constructed about 1810…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1861
Cigar merchant George Mudeking buys 135 West Broadway and lives above a grocery
By the 1850s the building held a boot maker, Jacob Knob, and James Gallagher, a dealer in dressmaking supplies. In 1861 George Mudeking, a cigar merchant, bought it and lived on the upper floors while the ground floor ran as a grocery store. By the 1920s the Star Iron Works filled the whole building, and Bogen's Express Co. and Standard Scale Service & Repair came later.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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