Beauty & Essex
146 Essex Street | also 145 Norfolk Street | Lower East Side | built 1930
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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.
- 1969
By the late 1960s M. Katz & Sons Fine Furniture has moved into 146 Essex Street
Meilich Katz founded M. Katz & Sons Fine Furniture in 1906 in a Lower East Side tenement. His sons opened a shop on Stanton Street in the 1930s, and by the late 1960s the third generation had relocated to 146 Essex Street. A faded sign from the 1960s still marks the facade. The firm still sells furniture, and a fifth generation of the Katz family now runs a smaller shop on Orchard Street.
Source: Ephemeral New York
- 2010
Beauty & Essex opens in 2010 in a huge space once home to a furniture firm
Beauty & Essex, a lounge and restaurant, opened in 2010 in a very large space at 146 Essex Street, which had been home base for M. Katz & Sons Fine Furniture. Ephemeral New York called it a flashy addition to Lower East Side nightlife at a time when the neighborhood still had a grittier edge. In 2021 the blog reported the venue as temporarily closed, while the Katz ghost sign remained on the facade.
Source: Ephemeral New York
Further reading
- A ghost sign for a family business on Essex StreetEphemeral New York
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