232 Mercer Street
also 246 Mercer Street | NoHo | built 1981
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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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- 1872
Financier James Fisk is murdered by Edward Stokes at the Grand Central Hotel on this block
The Grand Central Hotel opened in 1870 at 673 Broadway at West 3rd Street. Henry Engelbert designed it for the carpet manufacturer Elias S. Higgins. It became famous when the financier James Fisk was shot there in 1872 by Edward S. Stokes. New York University later built a law-school dormitory on the site, so the hotel was an earlier building here.
“…famous as the site of the murder of financier James Fisk in 1872 by Edward S. Stokes…”
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- 1876
Eight baseball clubs found the National League at the Grand Central Hotel
On February 2, 1876, representatives of eight baseball teams met at the Grand Central Hotel, at Broadway and West 3rd Street, and created the body that grew into the National League of Major League Baseball. The league's 50th and 75th anniversaries were later marked at the hotel. The hotel was an earlier building on this site.
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