163 Mercer Street

SoHo | built 1867

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.

1867
A stable and wagon house is built at 163 Mercer Street for Wheller & Wilson
The Landmarks Preservation Commission lists 163 Mercer Street as an 1867 brick and iron stable, wagon house and storage building, designed by G. Van Nostrand for an owner it gives as Wheller & Wilson. It was two stories tall on a 25-foot lot. In 1948 the second story was removed and a new facade added, though the original ground-floor piers survive.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1982
Keith Haring's breakout show opens at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 163 Mercer Street
Village Preservation places Keith Haring's breakout exhibition at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery, at 163 Mercer Street in SoHo, in 1982. The show followed his early years of work in downtown New York, which a Brooklyn Museum exhibition later examined. A poster for the Mercer Street show was displayed at the museum.
Source: Village Preservation

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