324 Lafayette Street

also 159 Crosby Street | NoHo | built 1897

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.

1897
An eight-story store and warehouse rises at 324-328 Lafayette Street for Michael Hanlon
Horenburger & Straub, with Martin Johnson, designed the steel-and-iron-frame building, built in 1897 for Michael Hanlon once Lafayette Street had been pushed south of Great Jones Street. It took the place of two earlier brick buildings on Crosby Street. The Renaissance Revival building has brick facing and stands eight stories tall.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1911
Light manufacturers fill 324-328 Lafayette Street, later giving way to offices and a factory
By 1911 the building at 324-328 Lafayette Street was occupied by light manufacturers. By 1928 it held offices and storage, and by 1941 a factory and stores. Its upper floors are now live-work quarters.
“By 1911, the building was occupied by light manufacturers, by 1928 by offices and storage, and by 1941 as a factory and stores.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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