150-152 Chambers Street

150 Chambers Street | Tribeca | built 1915

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  1. 1861

    October 23

    An old brick house at 150 Chambers Street starts doubling as a business address

    Before the present loft building, a brick house stood at 150 Chambers Street, one of the last holdouts as the block turned commercial. By 1861 it had a business in it: real estate agent Henry McEwing advertised a West 24th Street house for rent and told applicants to inquire upstairs here. The house was later replaced by a new building.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1867

    A loft building made to match its marble neighbor replaces the old house at 150 Chambers Street

    By the late 1860s a new loft and store building at 150 Chambers Street, a near-twin of the marble-faced building at 152, had replaced the old brick house. Only the slightly different heights of the storefronts and first-floor cornices show that they are two buildings. In 1869 it held a grocer, shoe dealers, clothiers and a maker of traveling bags on its floors.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1869

    July 27

    A fire in the clothing shop of Wollf & Bros. spreads to the top floor of 150 Chambers Street

    On the evening of July 27, 1869, fire broke out in the fourth-floor shop of the clothing firm Wollf & Bros. at 150 Chambers Street. It climbed to the fifth floor before it was put out. Wollf & Bros. lost about $3,000, the other tenants about $1,000 each, and the building itself roughly $3,000.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1900

    October 29

    Candy maker Alexander Powell takes over 150 Chambers Street, and a worker flees the Tarrant explosion

    In 1900 confectioner Alexander M. Powell took over No. 150 and joined it internally to No. 152 as a candy factory. When the Tarrant & Co. drug works a block away exploded on October 29, 15-year-old worker Kate Smith ran in panic toward Greenwich Street, the worst direction. The next day The New York Times listed her among the missing, citing her foreman.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1911

    January 13

    Smith & Hemenway, burned out of Duane Street, reopens at 150 Chambers Street two days later

    In 1911 hardware maker Smith & Hemenway Co. moved into the combined 150-152 Chambers Street buildings after fire destroyed its Duane Street premises on January 11, and it was open for business again on January 13. The firm made hardware specialties under the Red Devil brand. Later tenants included a leather-belting maker and an electrical-goods seller.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  6. 1948

    February 16

    Teenage burglars loot eight offices at 150-152 Chambers Street and stop for a tuna dinner

    On the night of February 16, 1948, a gang of boys aged 14 to 18 broke into the Superior Typewriter offices at 154 Chambers Street through a skylight, then crossed the roof and emptied eight offices at 150-152. The New York Times reported that they paused to eat, leaving tuna cans, whisky bottles and empty safes behind. Police arrested them within a week.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  7. 1989

    The 150-152 Chambers Street loft buildings are converted to apartments above the shops

    In the 1970s the building's tenants included the Jaro Electronics Corp., a reminder of its decades as a light-industrial loft. In 1989, like many Tribeca lofts, 150-152 Chambers Street became apartments above the shops.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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