151 Mercer Street

SoHo | built 1920

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.

1993
MercBar opens in a former garage and tile warehouse at 151 Mercer Street
In 1993 John McDonald and the architect Campion Platt opened MercBar in an old garage and tile warehouse on this lot. It was reached by a graffiti-covered red door at the side and had no sign. It became a meeting place for downtown art, fashion and entertainment people. This describes an earlier building on the site.
“MercBar was opened in 1993 in an old garage and tile warehouse at 151 Mercer Street.”
Source: Wikipedia
2013
MercBar closes at 151 Mercer Street as its building is demolished
MercBar shut in 2013, after about twenty years in business, when the building that housed it at 151 Mercer Street came down. The Mercer Hotel next door had been the bar's original landlord. The present building on the lot is new construction from after the district's designation. This entry concerns the earlier building on the site.
“The bar closed in 2013 when the building was demolished. The bar's original landlord was the Mercer Hotel, located next door.”
Source: Wikipedia

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