Mink Building
1361 Amsterdam Avenue | also 479 West 126th Street, 492 West 128th Street | Manhattanville | built 1911
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1920
Prohibition shuts down the Bernheimer & Schwartz brewery here
The Bernheimer & Schwartz Pilsener Brewing Company ran its plant at this Amsterdam Avenue complex from 1903, when the site was readdressed to 127th to 129th Streets and Amsterdam Avenue. National Prohibition takes effect in 1920 and ends brewing at the complex. It is one of the few buildings left from the large brewing industry that once filled this part of Manhattanville.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1923
Federal agents destroy hundreds of thousands of gallons of beer here
In July 1923, federal Prohibition officers begin destroying a huge stock of old beer at the former Bernheimer & Schwartz plant at 128th Street and Amsterdam Avenue. Some 836,000 gallons of lager, plus 4,000 barrels of ale aged twelve years, pour into the Harlem sewers. The New York Times prices the lost beer at about $1 million.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1940
Interborough Fur Storage takes over part of the old brewery complex
By the 1940s the Interborough Fur Storage Company operates at the former brewery, where wealthy New Yorkers leave their furs for the summer. The building is known today as the Mink Building. It later becomes office space in the late 1990s.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2011
Community Board 9 votes to drop the building from landmark consideration
The former brewery complex had been calendared for possible landmark designation since the 1990s. In 2011 Manhattan's Community Board 9 votes overwhelmingly to remove it from consideration, ending a standoff between preservationists and developers. It is one of only two brewery complexes left on Manhattan island, and its owner, the Janus Property Company, is converting it to affordable housing and office space.
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