Former Triangle Civic Improvement Association
208 Sullivan Street | Greenwich Village | built 1907
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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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- 1907
Charles M. Straub designs a six-story Colonial Revival tenement with stores for Pasquale Lauria
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Pasquale Lauria commissioned the architect Charles M. Straub to design this six-story red brick tenement with stores in 1907. Its sixth story is rusticated, and some original storefront elements apparently survive, among them slender cast-iron colonettes at the windows and paneled wood-and-glass doors.
- 1980
Mob boss Vincent Gigante runs the Genovese family from the Triangle Social Club on Sullivan Street
From the 1980s the Triangle Civic Improvement Association at 208 Sullivan Street was the headquarters of Genovese family boss Vincent "Chin" Gigante. He usually spent his evenings at his mother's house at 225 Sullivan, across the street, instead of at his New Jersey home, and conducted business at the club, reportedly over games of pinochle. For years he put on an act of mental incompetence to dodge prosecution. He began a 12-year prison term in 1997 and died in prison in 2005, aged 77.
“Gigante spent most evenings at his mother's house, located across the street at no. 225, rather than his New Jersey home, and would conduct business in the club…”
- 2011
A tea and spice shop opens in the old members-only mob club and keeps its tin ceiling and mural
The storefront at 208 Sullivan Street, once marked as for members only, became the Sullivan Street Tea & Spice Company in March 2011. The owner, the first tenant after the Triangle club, chose to preserve the historic storefront, tin ceiling and tiled floor, along with a painted mural signed Helen Meyer and dated 2/65. The South Village Historic District, which includes the building, was designated in 2013.
Source: Village Preservation
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