239 Centre Street

Little Italy | built 1882

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.

1882
John B. Snook designs a five-story factory at 239 Centre Street
A five-story brick factory went up at 239 Centre Street in 1882 to designs by the architect John B. Snook, for an owner named Campbell. It was one of many factories and store buildings then rising on the streets running parallel to Broadway, which was turning the area from an entertainment district into a center for the dry-goods and mercantile trade. The Landmarks Preservation Commission describes its plain detailing as typical of modest late-Italianate industrial architecture.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1895
Machine shops, grinders and chemists fill the Centre Street factory
Over the years the building at 239 Centre Street housed small industrial firms. City records list A. Dewes, a machine shop, in 1895 and George Dennett, machinery, in 1921. The Spiro Co., grinders, appears in 1946 and Frederick W. Zons, industrial chemistry, in 1960. By 2005 the ground floor held the Posterati Gallery, part of the shift from small factories to art galleries.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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