188 Bleecker Street

also 87 MacDougal Street | Greenwich Village | built 1928

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

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1928
Fugazy family corporation builds 188 Bleecker (87-89 MacDougal) to hold its bank and travel bureau
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The six-story building at 87-89 MacDougal Street, long numbered 188 Bleecker, went up in 1928 to designs by F. E. Vitolo and C. W. Schlusing. It belonged to a corporation controlled by the brothers Italo A. Fugazy and Adolph J. Fugazy, whose father, Louis V. Fugazy, was an Italian immigrant who had opened a private bank and travel bureau in the Village in the 19th century. When the building was finished, the bank and the travel agency both moved in.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1940
A funeral home takes over the former Fugazy travel bureau space at 87-89 MacDougal around 1940
After Louis Fugazy's death the family bank was merged into the Bank of Sicily Trust Co., which stayed in the building through the late 1940s. The travel agency left around 1940, and a funeral home belonging to James W. Rosso moved into its former space. The funeral home stayed until the late 1970s.
“The travel agency remained until around 1940 at which time the space was converted into a funeral home owned by James W. Rosso.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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