Peace Pentagon

337 Lafayette Street | also 51 Bleecker Street | NoHo | built 1922

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1974
The War Resisters League buys the building it had rented since 1968
The War Resisters League begins renting space at 339 Lafayette Street in 1968. In 1974 it buys the building for $60,000.
Source: Wikipedia
1978
The A. J. Muste Institute buys the building and rents offices to activist groups
In 1978 the A. J. Muste Institute pays $91,000 to the War Resisters League for the building. For decades it offers office space at below-market rates to politically congenial activist groups, including the Granny Peace Brigade, the Socialist Party USA and Paper Tiger Television. The building is nicknamed the Peace Pentagon.
Source: Wikipedia
2015
October
Developer Aby Rosen's company buys the building
In October 2015 the building is sold to 337 Lafayette L.P., a real estate holding company owned by developer Aby Rosen. The building, officially numbered 339-345, had been known for decades as the home of many left-wing and activist organizations.
Source: Wikipedia

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