290 Hudson Street

also 286 Spring Street | Hudson Square | built 1900

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Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1. 1936

   September 8

   Drug and gum importers Thurston & Braidich lease the six-story building for ten years

   On September 8, 1936, the New York Herald Tribune reported that the 286 Spring Street Company, headed by Jacob Pfister, had rented the six-story building at 290 Hudson and 286 Spring Streets, which wraps around a corner in an L, to the importers Thurston & Braidich on a ten-year lease starting the following May. The firm dealt in drugs, vanilla beans and gum arabic, descended from a drug house of 1850, and had expanded into its own Cliff Street building in 1915. It stayed here until 1958.

   Source: waltergrutchfield.net

2. 1965

   Baldwin Belting moves into 286-300 Spring Street and stays until it closes in 1989

   Baldwin Belting, Inc., which sold leather and rubber belting, hose and packing, moves into this building at 286-300 Spring Street in 1965. The company began in 1925 on Warren Street and later worked from Chambers Street. It remains until it goes out of business in 1989; a photograph from 1988 shows its sign on Spring Street near Hudson Street.

   Source: waltergrutchfield.net

3. 2013

   February 6

   A faded Thurston & Braidich painted ad can still be seen on the wall at 286 Spring Street

   In February 2013, Kevin Walsh of Forgotten New York points out the faded painted advertisement for Thurston & Braidich that can still be seen on the wall at 286 Spring Street. Part of the brickwork has since been repointed, which makes the ad's right side harder to read. Walsh credits the blog Eating in Translation for his information on the firm.

   Source: Forgotten New York

Further reading

• THURSTON & BRAIDICH, 286 Spring StreetForgotten New York

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