165 Hudson Street

Tribeca | built 1908

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

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1908
Bennett, Sloan & Company roasts coffee on the sixth floor of 165 Hudson
Lionel Moses designed this warehouse in 1907 for Sarah Pyle McAlpin, and its first occupant was the wholesale grocery, tea and coffee firm Bennett, Sloan & Company, founded in New Haven in 1878. The firm sold its B B Blend coffee across New England, the central states and the south. Its roaster stood on the fireproof sixth floor beneath a raised skylight, with storage bins one floor below.
“Upon completion, the building was occupied by Bennett, Sloan & Company, a wholesale grocery, tea, and coffee business which in 1878 had been founded in New Haven.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1928
Zaloom Brothers import pistachio nuts from the upper floors of 165 Hudson
The Zaloom Brothers, later the Zenobia Company, were pistachio nut importers who occupied the upper part of the building from the late 1920s into the 1930s. The Eagle Haulage Company and other firms occupied the lower floors. Around 1980 the upper floors were converted to residential use.
“From the late 1920s through the 1930s, the Zaloom Brothers (later Zenobia Company, Inc.), importers of pistachio nuts, occupied the upper portion of the building…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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