228 West Broadway

also 8 North Moore Street | Tribeca | built 1892

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

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1892
Myron W. Dow commissions an L-shaped cast-iron store and loft building on West Broadway
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Maynard & Wistairr designed this six-story building in 1892 for Myron W. Dow, with C. F. Smith as builder. It consists of two wings, each twenty-five feet wide, with one front on West Broadway and the other on North Moore Street, joined at a splayed angle to form an L. Cast-iron armatures hold the window groups, and ornate sheet-metal spandrels and piers decorate both tower-like facades.
“Commissioned by Myron W. Dow, it was designed by Maynard & Wistairr in the Renaissance Revival style.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1920
A wholesale produce executive owns the building in the 1920s
During the 1920s the building at 228 West Broadway belonged to Samuel Rosenblum, who headed a wholesale produce company based close by at 315 Washington Street.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1943
Small manufacturers, a flavoring extracts showroom and a printer fill the building's lofts
In 1943 the building was rented as manufacturing lofts. A number of small manufacturing firms worked there, along with a sales room for flavoring extracts, and a printing operation occupied space above the first-story stores. Some of the upper floors have since been converted to residential use.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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