2 Spring Street

188 Bowery | also 2 Spring Street, 4 Spring Street, 2A Spring Street | Nolita | built 1930

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.

1889
Edward D. Lindsey designs a five-story industrial building at Bowery and Spring Street
The corner building at 2 Spring Street, at the Bowery, was built in 1889 to designs by Edward D. Lindsey. It was a five-floor industrial building, and it later served as a home and studio for an artist.
Source: NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project
1940
A 1940 photograph shows an Adler Shoes store on the ground floor
A 1940 photograph shows the ground floor occupied by an Adler Shoes store, one of many in mid-century New York. Ephemeral New York adds that the corner held Church's Dispensary, a pharmacy, for decades in the 19th century, and that a jeans shop was the latest tenant in 2024. The post also puzzles over a cone of brick topped by a lacy iron railing under the corner window, whose purpose it could not explain.
Source: Ephemeral New York
1965
Pop artist Robert Indiana moves into the building and eventually takes all five floors
Robert Indiana lived and worked in this former industrial building from 1965 to 1978, using every one of its five floors. He set aside a level each for painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking and living. His lease expired in 1975, but he stayed on until 1978, when he left for Vinalhaven Island in Maine.
Source: NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project

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