God's Providence Mission

330 Broome Street | Lower East Side | built 1900

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

1. 1895

   November 5

   Bishop Henry Potter dedicates God's Providence Mission on Broome Street

   The mission was run as an offshoot of the New York Protestant Episcopal Mission Society and stood on land donated by Mrs. Percy R. Pyne, whose husband was a prominent banker. Bishop Henry Potter dedicated it on November 5, 1895. The Sun described a basement cooking school, a ground-floor chapel and club rooms, a kindergarten on the second and third floors, and a gymnasium on the fourth.

   Source: Ephemeral New York

2. 1927

   Rabbi Meyer Goldsmith starts a mannequin factory in the former mission

   After the mission closed, a factory took over the building. Rabbi Meyer Goldsmith, newly arrived from Russia, founded a mannequin business here in 1927. It was a family operation with four Goldsmith brothers involved, and it ran for several decades, with an ad appearing in 1968.

   Source: Ephemeral New York

3. 1970

   Artist Arleen Schloss moves into a loft here, and a weekly art-and-music night grows

   Experimental artist Arleen Schloss moved into 330 Broome in 1970, drawn by cheap rents on a neglected Lower East Side. Her loft became the home of weekly gatherings called Wednesdays at A's. Performers there included Jean-Michel Basquiat's band Gray, Thurston Moore, Glenn Branca and Alan Vega.

   Source: Ephemeral New York

4. 1979

   A's, Schloss's loft, serves as a hub for noise music, film and performance art

   A 2021 book on the loft's peak years carries the title Wednesdays at A's, with the subtitle 330 Broome St. NY 1979-1981. Wikipedia calls A's an interdisciplinary loft that became a center for noise music, exhibitions, performance, film and video. Y Pants, Liquid Liquid, Carolee Schneemann, Martin Wong and Ai Weiwei are among those named as performing or exhibiting there.

   “Wednesdays at A’s: 330 Broome St. NY 1979-1981 by Baptiste Brévart, Guillaume Ettlinger, Guillaume Loizillon & Pauline Chevalier…”

   Source: Wikipedia

Further reading

• From mission house to mannequin factory to arts space, the many lives of a Broome Street buildingEphemeral New York

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