New York University Hayden Hall
240 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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- 1971
The Kitchen opens in the Mercer Arts Center in the old hotel as a space for video artists
Video artists Steina and Woody Vasulka rented the kitchen at the Mercer Arts Center, housed in the former Broadway Central Hotel, and opened The Kitchen as a showcase for video work on June 15, 1971. Music was added to the programming later that year, with Rhys Chatham as the first music director. In the summer of 1973 the group began planning a move to Wooster Street. The hotel was an earlier building on this site.
“…opened The Kitchen as a presentation space for video artists on June 15, 1971…”
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- 1973
Part of the old hotel's Broadway facade collapses in 1973, killing four residents
On August 3, 1973, a section of the Broadway facade of the hotel, by then known as the University Hotel, collapsed onto Broadway and killed four residents. Illegal alterations to a basement bearing wall were allegedly part of the cause. The building also housed the Mercer Arts Center on its Mercer Street side. It was an earlier building on this site.
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- 1981
NYU builds a law-school dormitory on the site of the Broadway Central Hotel
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Benjamin Thompson & Associates designed this residence hall for New York University's School of Law, built in 1979-81 at 234-246 Mercer Street. It has a U-shaped plan, a landscaped entrance court facing Mercer Street, and towers of varying heights, from 6 to 20 stories, set back from Broadway and West 3rd Street. It stands where the Broadway Central Hotel stood until its 1973 collapse, along with several older commercial buildings that were cleared for it.
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