204 Spring Street

SoHo | built 1901

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

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  1. 1901

    April 10

    Italian-immigrant developers Abbate and Marasco file plans for a seven-story tenement at 204 Spring Street

    Dominick Abbate began as a newsboy at nine and had saved $150 by 21; with Rocco Maria Marasco he went into real estate, building tenements rather than living in them. The New York Times of April 10, 1901, announced that architect A. G. Rechlin had submitted plans for the pair's newest project at this address, a seven-story brick flat with a $25,000 budget. Francesco and Louise Roseti bought the finished building from the pair on December 9, 1901, by which time they had already moved in.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1901

    A. G. Rechlin's terra-cotta-trimmed Renaissance Revival tenement at 204 Spring Street is built for Marasco & Abbate

    The seven-story white brick building was designed by A. G. Rechlin for the realty firm of Italian immigrants Dominick Abbate and Rocco Maria Marasco. Ornament includes terra-cotta panels beneath the windows, molded frames around the windows, a cornice at the third floor and a pressed-metal cornice decorated with swags. The city's Landmarks Preservation Commission lists it as a contributing building in the Sullivan-Thompson Historic District.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1917

    A tenant of 204 Spring Street is rushed to St. Vincent's Hospital with wood alcohol poisoning from "war whiskey"

    In early November 1917, Joseph Percodani of 204 Spring Street was taken from his apartment to St. Vincent's Hospital, and doctors there diagnosed wood alcohol poisoning. The Sun, reporting on November 4, called him the latest victim of bad "war whiskey" to draw a police investigation.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1922

    March 9

    Federal agents arrest a self-described grocer at 204 Spring Street and seize 100 pounds of heroin

    Luigi Parmengini lived in a three-room apartment at 204 Spring Street with his wife and two children and presented himself as a prosperous grocer. Federal narcotic agents instead called him one of the biggest wholesale drug sellers in the country. After an undercover operation, they arrested him on March 9, 1922, and seized 100 pounds of heroin, which The New York Times valued at $500,000 at street-peddler prices.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1978

    Craftsman Bob Wald sells sculptural furniture from a 204 Spring Street shop as SoHo turns fashionable

    Rechlin designed the seven-story white brick tenement for Marasco & Abbate, a realty company started by two Italian immigrants. The Landmarks Preservation Commission points to its Renaissance Revival touches: ornate terra-cotta panels beneath the windows, molded window frames, and a metal cornice decorated with swags. The commission counts it as a contributing building in the Sullivan-Thompson Historic District.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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