David Chrystie House

25 Bleecker Street | NoHo | built 1830

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1827

    David Chrystie builds a brick-faced house at 25 Bleecker Street and advertises it to let

    David Chrystie bought the lot in 1825 and around 1827 built a 20-foot-wide frame house faced in brick. That year he advertised it in the New York Evening Post as a new two-story brick house with two parlors, six chambers with grates and bells, and a good kitchen. It was rented to tenants for decades; in 1832 an 11-member household leaving the city sold off its high-end furniture.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1890

    The Bleecker Street house is converted to a small factory with a storefront, hosting fur and flower makers

    After years as a rooming house, the building was renovated in 1890 for commercial use, with a new storefront and a raised attic. By 1895 tenants included Philip Meyer's artificial flower and feather shop with 38 employees, 16 of them minors, plus fur and millinery firms. Fur and feather firms kept renting space for years.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1945

    Fur dealer Jacob Scholnick buys 25 Bleecker Street and keeps his business here into the 1960s

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    Scholnick, a fur dealer, moved into the building in the late 1930s and bought it in 1945, remaining until the early 1960s. The Heyman Sewing Machine Co. was also here for decades, from the late 1930s to the mid-1960s. After manufacturing declined, loft dwellers took over the upper floors, and the facade was replaced in 1984.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  4. 2016

    May

    The Landmarks Commission approves replacing the altered Chrystie house with a new building

    In May 2016 the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved razing the 189-year-old building for a new six-story mixed-use building with a penthouse, designed by architect Michael Haverland. Little of the original structure remained beyond its paneled stone lintels, which had been exposed again in a 1984 renovation. The plans called for saving two cast-iron piers from the 1890 storefront.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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