Vesuvio Bakery building

160 Prince Street | SoHo | built 1904

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1904
Nathan Silverson builds a six-story new-law tenement at 160-162 Prince Street
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Architects Bernstein & Bernstein designed this tenement for developer Nathan Silverson in 1904, along with a companion building at 120 Thompson Street on the same lot. Both are six-story new-law buildings of red brick, with projecting bays and terra-cotta and beige-brick trim, and the Prince Street front carries scrolled keystones and lion's-head ornaments. A wooden storefront at the eastern end of the ground floor survives from the building's early days.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1920
Neapolitan immigrants Nunzio and Jennie Dapolito open Vesuvio Bakery at 160 Prince Street
Nunzio and Jennie Dapolito, immigrants from Naples, opened the Vesuvio Bakery at 160 Prince Street in 1920. The Landmarks Preservation Commission counts it among the notable Italian-American businesses of the Sullivan-Thompson area, where many shops were family-run and passed their skills down through generations.
“Vesuvio Bakery at 160 Prince Street, opened in 1920 by Neapolitan immigrants Nunzio and Jennie Dapolito…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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