The Dominick
246 Spring Street | Hudson Square | built 2007
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- 1811
Spring Street Presbyterian Church opens at Spring and Varick Streets
A congregation that began with prayer meetings in homes and businesses in 1809 opened its church on this corner on May 6, 1811, after laying the cornerstone the previous July. It was a shingled wood-frame building topped with a cupola, built partly from timbers, pews and a pulpit reused from the Wall Street Presbyterian Church, which had just dissolved.
Source: Village Preservation
- 1834
An anti-abolition mob wrecks the Spring Street Church and barricades itself with its pews
In July 1834 rioters sacked the church and the homes of two ministers, Rev. Henry Ludlow and Rev. Samuel Cox. At Spring Street they broke in through smashed windows and piled the wrecked organ, pews and galleries outside as a barricade against the National Guard. The congregation rebuilt in 1836 with a Greek Revival sanctuary.
Source: Village Preservation
- 1963
Spring Street Church holds its last service; a 1966 fire and demolition follow
By 1963 the neighborhood had turned industrial and the congregation had shrunk to fewer than 49 members, so the Presbytery voted to dissolve it, with a final service on December 29. Hopes of raising money to reopen the building faded. An abandoned-building fire struck in 1966, the ruin was razed, and a parking lot took its place.
Source: Village Preservation
- 2006
Builders uncover the church's forgotten burial vaults while digging the foundation
On the June 5, 2006 season finale of The Apprentice, winner Sean Yazbeck chose the Spring Street condo-hotel over a Honolulu tower. Developers included Felix Sater and Tevfik Arif of the Bayrock Group. Donald Trump's deal with them gave him an 18 percent equity stake in return for licensing his name.
Source: Village Preservation
- 2006
The Apprentice finale picks this design for the Trump SoHo
On the June 5, 2006 season finale of The Apprentice, winner Sean Yazbeck chose the Spring Street condo-hotel over a Honolulu tower. Developers included Felix Sater and Tevfik Arif of the Bayrock Group; in return for licensing his name, Donald Trump got an 18 percent equity stake without investing his own capital.
“Trump's deal with Sater and Arif gave Trump 18 percent of the equity in the project in exchange for licensing Trump's name.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2007
Protesters greet the Trump SoHo launch party at the Spring Street site
On September 19, 2007, scores of demonstrators gathered outside the launch party for the Trump SoHo condo-hotel. The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, the SoHo Alliance, Community Board 2 and Council member Tony Avella joined in. The SoHo Alliance announced at a press conference that it would take the city to court over the project's approval.
Source: Internet Archive
- 2008
The Board of Standards and Appeals upholds the Trump SoHo condo-hotel approval
On May 6, 2008, the city's Board of Standards and Appeals voted to uphold the city ruling that the Trump SoHo condo-hotel was permitted under zoning. The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, which opposed the project, said the decision let its ally the SoHo Alliance appeal to State Supreme Court while the tower was already partly built.
Source: Internet Archive
- 2008
A concrete formwork collapse kills a worker on the 42nd floor of the rising tower
On January 14, 2008, wooden formwork gave way during a concrete pour at the tower, and Yuriy Vanchytskyy, a Ukrainian immigrant working for the subcontractor DiFama Concrete, plunged from the 42nd floor and died. Three other workers were injured. The Department of Buildings stopped work, general contractor Bovis Lend Lease received four violations, and investigators concluded the wooden forms fell short of industry standards. The stop-work order applied only to the upper floors and was lifted on August 22.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2010
Condo buyers sue the Trump SoHo developers over sales figures
In August 2010, buyers at the unfinished tower sued the developers, including Donald Trump, Donald Jr., Ivanka Trump, the Sapir Organization and Bayrock Group. They alleged they were lied to about sales figures. Donald Jr. had told The Real Deal in 2009 that sales had reached 55 percent, but a sworn affidavit by a Trump partner put the share of units in contract at 15.8 percent by March 2010.
Source: therealdeal.com
- 2011
Trump SoHo buyers settle and tell the district attorney no crime occurred
In November 2011, buyers' lawyer Adam Leitman Bailey told Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. that his clients had settled their suit. His letter said the defendants had not violated criminal law, which Vance later said he had never seen a civil plaintiff write. Bailey said the buyers got 90 percent of their money back and agreed to stop speaking to the DA's office.
Source: therealdeal.com
- 2017
The Trump SoHo hotel plans layoffs as bookings fall
In May 2017, WNYC reported that managers at the Trump SoHo were preparing to lay off 12 room attendants from a housekeeping staff of 80 and end turn-down service. Rooms that had cost over $700 a night were listed for under $400, and the Koi restaurant closed about a month early. Large corporate bookings fell from 29 in early 2016 to 11 over the same period of 2017.
Source: wnyc.org
- 2017
The Trump name comes off the hotel as it becomes The Dominick
Because of Trump's 2016 campaign, Trump-branded hotels saw business fall, and WNYC reported layoffs at the Trump SoHo in May 2017. In November 2017 the Trump Organization said it would end its affiliation by year's end, and on December 21, 2017 the building took the name The Dominick.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2025
Cain International is reported to be buying The Dominick for over $175 million
In July 2025, Commercial Observer relayed Bloomberg's report that Cain International, a partnership of Jonathan Goldstein and Eldridge Industries, was expected to buy the 391-key hotel from CIM Group for more than $175 million. CIM had bought out the Trump family's management and licensing in 2017 and renamed the hotel The Dominick. Cain planned to reposition the property.
Source: commercialobserver.com
Further reading
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