154 Stanton Street

also 164 Suffolk Street | Lower East Side | 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.

1942
A faded sign over the corner door still names clothier Louis Zuflacht
Louis Zuflacht's name appears twice above the corner entrance of this red-brick tenement at 154 Stanton Street. The sign is reported to date from 1942, when the Lower East Side was crowded with discount clothing and accessory shops. Ephemeral New York notes that a store called Tress & Tress, with its own sign, occupied the space in 1940, and that Zuflacht took it over in the early 1940s. Later short-lived businesses never removed the lettering.
Source: Ephemeral New York
1986
Louis Zuflacht, who ran a tailor shop and haberdashery here for decades, dies in 1986
Born in Austria in 1881, Zuflacht came to New York in 1900 and by 1920 listed his occupation as clothing merchant. Writer Frank Mastropolo, in a 2020 Village Sun article cited by Ephemeral New York, says he kept a tailor shop and haberdashery at 154 Stanton Street for decades. He ran it with his sons until he died in 1986, though when the shop closed is not clear. A 1916 Times notice had reported a bankruptcy by a clothing dealer of his name at 184 Stanton Street.
Source: Ephemeral New York

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