152 Thompson Street

SoHo | built 1913

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

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1913
Dominick Abbate, a former newsboy, builds five white-brick tenements in the Sullivan-Thompson district
The Citizens Investing Company built 152-154 Thompson Street in 1913 as one of five glazed-white-brick tenements on Sullivan and Thompson Streets. Its head, Dominick Abbate, was an Italian immigrant who began work as a newsboy at age nine, went to evening school and then started his own real-estate firm. The Landmarks Preservation Commission sees his projects as a sign of the rise of the district's Italian-American community.
“The five Sullivan and Thompson Street tenements were constructed by the Citizens Investing Company headed by Dominick Abbate, an Italian immigrant who began working as a newsboy at the age of nine.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1930
Widening Houston Street exposes the north wall of 152-154 Thompson Street
When 152-154 Thompson Street was built in 1913, its north side backed onto the rears of several other tenements. Those neighboring tenements were torn down when Houston Street was widened in the 1930s, so the building's north wall now faces the street. Its Secessionist white-brick front, with three inlaid green brick rectangles, remains on Thompson Street.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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