145 Sullivan Street

SoHo | built 1875

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.

1875
William Zschwetzke builds 145 Sullivan Street as a five-story Neo-Grec tenement
Read more
William Zschwetzke designed 145 Sullivan Street in 1875 and built it for himself, together with Nos. 141 and 143. It has five stories of red brick, stores below and Neo-Grec metal sills and lintels above. Sometime after about 1940 the storefronts were replaced with residential infill, but one cast-iron pier is still visible at street level.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1892
Smallpox reaches residents of 145 Sullivan Street in the 1892 outbreak
The city's report on smallpox in New York in 1892 focused on three Sullivan Street tenements: Nos. 141, 143 and 145. The disease spread outward from No. 141, and residents of No. 145 fell ill. The tenement was fumigated and disinfected, but smallpox kept spreading across the neighborhood, which was then called the Italian district.
“…as the disease spread from 141 Sullivan Street, residents of 145 Sullivan Street were taken ill and the tenement fumigated and disinfected…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

Nearby