Henry Rehwinkel House

288 Mulberry Street | Nolita | built 1915

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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. 1830

    A 21-foot-wide Federal house is built around 1830 at 288 Mulberry Street

    Around 1830 a Federal house went up here, 21 feet wide and two and a half stories over a basement, faced in Flemish bond brick, with one or two dormers. It began as a boarding house for tradesmen such as a carpenter, a furrier and a grocer. In the early 1870s the attic became a full story with a simple dentiled brick cornice, and in 1932 architect Emil Koeppel converted it to apartments over a basement store.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1876

    June 25

    A barber's teenage son admits his tale of a police clubbing was invented

    Frederick Rehwinkel, 16, who worked in his father's basement barbershop, told of a May beating by Officer Thomas Mitchell, and the New York Herald printed the story in June. At the June 24 trial a police surgeon found pneumonia and no marks of clubbing. Frederick changed his account and said a man he knew as the man with the big foot had talked him into it.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1900

    July 17

    Two boys sleep on the stoop of 288 Mulberry Street after their grandparents turn them away

    On July 17, 1900, Ferdinand Rehwinkel left his young nephews Harry and Charlie at his parents' door here, and Henry and Wilhelmina Rehwinkel sent them away. The brothers were found asleep on the stoop the next morning, and Officer McMahon kicked at the door until Henry answered. The children were placed briefly with the Gerry Society and went home with their mother the next day, while the grandparents were summoned to court.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1924

    November 28

    A rooming-house resident is among the New York gunmen who shot a Schenectady police captain

    By the 1920s 288 Mulberry Street was a rooming house in a rough neighborhood. On November 28, 1924, five New York gunmen brought in by dive keepers shot Police Captain Albert Youmans and Patrolman John Flynn in Schenectady during his campaign against organized crime. One of them, 22-year-old chauffeur Russo Marmore, gave 288 Mulberry Street as his address.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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