Sun Bright Hotel

140 Hester Street | also 88A Bowery, 88 Bowery, 88B Bowery | Little Italy | built 1910

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

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

1881
H. J. Schwartzmann rebuilds the corner clothing house at 140 Hester Street after a fire in 1881
The six-story corner building at Hester Street and the Bowery was designed by George DaCunha in 1880 and housed a clothing business and offices. After a fire in 1881 the architect H. J. Schwartzmann rebuilt it. The Neo Grec building has corbelled brickwork framing three recessed bays and ornate floral incisions on its lintels.
“Rebuilt by H.J. Schwartzmann, architect after 1881 fire. Clothing house & offices…”
Source: National Register nomination
1896
140 Hester Street becomes a store and lodging house, and by 1920 the Union Hotel
By 1896 the former clothing house at 140 Hester Street, also numbered 86-88 Bowery, had been converted into a store with a lodging house above. By 1920 it was operating as the Union Hotel under the Lyons Hotel Company. The nomination also places it in the historic diamond district, and it now operates as the Sun Hotel.
“By 1896, store & lodging house. Union Hotel (Lyons Hotel Co.) (1920); Currently Sun Hotel. Also part of the historic diamond district.”
Source: National Register nomination

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