22 Wooster Street

also 71 Grand Street | SoHo | built 1920

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.

1869
February 9
Louis Dunkle finishes a five-story brick-and-iron store and storehouse at 22 Wooster
No. 22 Wooster Street was begun in October 1868 and completed in February 1869 to designs by Louis Dunkle, with Welcher as builder. It was a store and storehouse five stories high, with a brick, stone and iron facade, built for an owner named Gray. The district report says its information also covers the northern half of the lot, No. 20, which was torn down in 1964.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1889
November 4
Carriage dealer William H. Gray advertises nearly 700 used carriages at his 20-22 Wooster warehouse
William H. Gray bought a carriage shop on Wooster Street in 1859 and later put up a large building at Nos. 20 and 22 for his growing business. On November 4, 1889, The Sun noted that his warehouse held English-style surreys and landaus and nearly 700 reconditioned secondhand carriages. Gray died in 1893, and his son William Jr. ran the firm into bankruptcy in 1898, according to Daytonian in Manhattan.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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