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390 Broadway | also 18 Cortlandt Alley | Civic Center | built 1860

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

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1899
A fire in 1899 damages 390 Broadway and Jardine, Kent & Jardine rebuild its front
A fire in 1899 badly damaged the 1859-60 building, which had been put up for Louisa Bruen. The estate of Alexander M. Bruen hired Jardine, Kent & Jardine to reconstruct it in 1900, and the facade seen today, with its arched fifth-story windows, comes from that rebuilding rather than the original Italianate design. Two masonry dwellings and a rear store had stood on the lot before.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1900
The Bruen-Ide family, descendants of John Jay, own 390 Broadway into the 1960s
From the late nineteenth century until the 1960s the building belonged to the Bruen-Ide family, descended from the first Chief Justice, John Jay. Alexander Jay Bruen was a New York lawyer from 1880 until he died in 1937. John Jay Ide, the last family owner, was a pioneer of international aviation. Tenants in that time included curtain wholesalers and a mattress-cover maker.
“…the building was owned by the Bruen-Ide family, descendants of John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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