Howard Street Garage
209 Centre Street | also 2 Howard Street | Little Italy | built 1964
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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.
- 1854
Police trace counterfeiters to a Howard Street drinking house called The Smile
In August 1854 William Waring was arrested for passing a bad Spanish quarter dollar, and officers traced the counterfeiters' headquarters to a drinking house called The Smile at 2 Howard Street, an earlier building on the lot where the Centre Street garage building now stands. Police found a quantity of fake shillings and quarters there, and one bad coin was in the till.
Source: scoutingny.com
- 1898
A manufacturing company runs a factory at 2 Howard Street
By 1898 the Baron & Houchin Manufacturing Company, maker of bar shakers and soda water bottles, had a factory at 2 Howard Street, an earlier building on this lot at the corner of Centre Street. By 1909 the Hudson Brass Works occupied the site.
Source: scoutingny.com
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