Clark, Chapin & Bushnell Building

177 Duane Street | also 179 Duane Street | Tribeca | built 1920

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Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1885

    Bloodgood & Bloodgood build a six-story loft across two lots for Jenkins & Lagrave

    John J. Jenkins and John I. Lagrave, who owned adjoining lots at Nos. 177 and 179, hired the brothers Freeman and William E. Bloodgood to design and build one 50-foot-wide loft. The plans were filed in March 1885 at a cost of $18,000. The neo-Grec and Queen Anne facade has red brick with stone trim and a terra-cotta parapet of stylized sunflowers.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1894

    June 22

    A grocery manager tells the Lexow Committee about police shakedowns over sidewalk use

    While the Lexow Committee investigated police corruption in 1894, Andrew J. Wellington, manager of the wholesale grocers Clark, Chapin & Bushnell, testified that an unidentified man had demanded a fee for letting trucks back across the sidewalk. The usual charge was $50, he said, but the firm's would be $25. Many businessmen feared to speak, but this firm did.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1906

    March 14

    Dynamite wrecks the shipping room during a teamsters' strike

    After Clark, Chapin & Bushnell fired striking drivers in December 1905 and hired replacements, the union reacted violently. At about 4:15 a.m. on March 14, 1906, dynamite thrown through a street door destroyed the shipping department, and the blast was reportedly heard half a mile away. A second bomb went off in July, and in August two former drivers who attacked the guarding patrolman were charged with the March bombing.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1963

    August 5

    Otto Roth & Co. celebrates 100 years of importing cheese from a building that smells of it

    Otto Roth, a cheese importer, took a long lease on the building in 1927. When the Times profiled the firm on its 100th anniversary in 1963, it handled more than 300 varieties from about 15 countries. Cheddars aged on racks for a year before being dipped in dark paraffin, provolones hung from the ceiling, and a writer called each floor cheese-perfumed.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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