192 Spring Street
SoHo | built 1891
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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.
- 1891
Kurtzer & Rohl design a Queen Anne tenement with German-inspired terra-cotta creatures
August Ruff's six-story tenement was designed by Kurtzer & Rohl and finished in 1891. The Landmarks Preservation Commission describes Queen Anne ornament such as a sunburst, an urn, belt bands and mythological horned creatures in the tympanum, with a German flavor. A pressed-metal cornice with a sunburst and floral swags crowns the facade. Apart from the ground floor, the building remains largely intact.
- 1892
A 15-year-old with smallpox is found in the building and sent to North Brother Island
The Evening World reported that Annie Gavin, fifteen, was found suffering from smallpox at her home in the building on the night of August 9, 1892, soon after it opened. She was taken to the city's quarantine hospital on North Brother Island in the East River. The case frightened the many families living in the tenement's four apartments per floor.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1918
Five young boys collecting money in an American flag are escorted to the Sun's office
Five boys from the building and next door, aged 7 to 14, were collecting money on the street for a service flag when Police Sergeant Theodore Ridder spotted them using a U.S. flag as a collecting bag. He took them to the Macdougal Street station. There he steered them toward the Sun's tobacco fund for soldiers instead, and they happily agreed. He walked them to the newspaper, where they gave $1.50, and their names were printed with the other donors.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1946
A resident trucker hired during a department-store strike is arrested after a Maspeth picket-line brawl
Joseph Izzo, a 30-year-old truck driver living here, was hired to make deliveries when the CIO retail workers' union struck in December 1946. At the Strauss Stores warehouse in Maspeth, Long Island on December 18, strikers called him a scab, and the confrontation turned violent. A striking salesman suffered a broken hip, and other picketers and a policeman were hurt. Izzo was jailed on $5,000 bail, charged with third-degree assault.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1968
A storefront woodworking shop trades free rent for taking out the garbage
From 1968 to 1971 one of the shops held the Old Springs Work Shop, which refinished and repaired furniture and made frames. Its co-owner Stuart Rudnick, a resident of the building, said he and his partner paid no rent in return for hauling out the garbage. Other stores marked SoHo's turn to boutiques and galleries: Trente's Afro-Disiac Boutique by 1969, the Fear Of Art Gallery in the mid-1970s, and Fertility in 1989.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- Kurtzer & Rohl's 1891 192 Spring StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
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