Bacigalupo stable

208 Spring Street | also 160 Avenue of the Americas | SoHo | built 1902

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.

1902
Undertaker Charles Bacigalupo has a six-story stable built at 208-210 Spring Street
Michael or Mitchell Bernstein designed this red Roman brick stable, trimmed in beige brick and terra cotta, for the undertaker Charles Bacigalupo in 1902. Its plain ornament suited its use as a home for horses. The building's cornice had been removed by the 1940s, when the city photographed every lot.
“…built in 1902 for the undertaker Charles Baciagalupo…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
Charles Bacigalupo, the Italian-American undertaker who built this stable, dies in 1908
Bacigalupo, an immigrant, started out as a bootblack, and rose to become Manhattan's leading Italian-American funeral director, with a large chapel on Mulberry Street. The New York Times reported that no Italian in the colony went without a proper burial for want of money, and that he held plots at Green-Wood and Calvary cemeteries for those who died poor. The stable on Spring Street reflected his prosperity.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1946
The former stable is converted to light manufacturing in 1946 and altered for restaurant use in 1949
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Alteration filings in 1946 changed the building's use from stable to light manufacturing, and a fire escape was added the same year. In 1949 the first floor was altered for restaurant use.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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