27 Mercer Street

also 25 Mercer Street | SoHo | built 1920

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  1. 1867

    Ritch & Griffiths complete a modest three-story store at 27 Mercer Street

    In 1866 trustees of the estate of Charlotte Gomez hired Ritch & Griffiths to design a commercial building on Mercer between Canal and Grand. The architects had recently designed the Labor Exchange at Castle Garden and the Emigrant Hospital on Ward's Island. Finished in 1867, the Italianate building is 24 feet wide and faced in granite over a cast-iron storefront, and it looks as much like a converted house as a loft.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1893

    September 15

    Furriers Jackson Brothers flee their Mercer Street loft owing creditors

    Julius and Moritz Jackson made furs here, employing about seventeen people in 1892. In September 1893 a creditor pressed them over a $2,375 debt, and they delayed, saying their religion barred business during the Jewish New Year. The sheriff then found the loft emptied overnight. The Evening World reported the closure on September 15, and the brothers were arrested in Boston four days later and extradited.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1916

    The Doddato family brings the scrap-paper and rag trade to the building

    The Nicholas Doddato Company leased the building in 1916 to handle rags, cotton and wool waste, and paper stock. After Rose Tuzio and her daughter bought it in 1925, waste-paper dealers filled every floor. On June 9, 1939 a two-alarm fire wrecked the place and injured a firefighter, months after a snapped hoist rope dropped about 700 pounds of material on tenant Morris Dell 'Olio, who won a $1,000 verdict against the landlords.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 2006

    Fringe Central sells festival tickets from 27 Mercer Street

    After artists moved into SoHo in the later twentieth century, the building took on cultural uses. In 2006 it housed Fringe Central, a place to buy tickets for the New York International Fringe Festival, which began in 1996. The sportswear brand Surface to Air opened its first store in the space in 2011, and the building became a residential triplex in 2016-17.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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