Andrew Kreps Gallery

394 Broadway | also 22 Cortlandt Alley | Civic Center | built 1865

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.

1864
Two small buildings once used for hazardous purposes stood where 394 Broadway rose
Before Southack's building went up in 1864-65, the lot held two smaller buildings that the Landmarks Preservation Commission says were used for hazardous purposes. They were earlier buildings on the site, and the new five-story building, which served for retail, storage and manufacturing, took the place of both.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1865
Furniture and mattress maker J.W. Southack builds 394 Broadway in 1864-65
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The Italianate building was erected for J.W. Southack, a furniture and mattress manufacturer. Its rusticated marble front has double-height arcades, and the cast-iron base on Cortlandt Alley bears the mark of the J.B. & W.W. Cornell Iron Works of 9 Centre Street. Originally five stories, it had gained a sixth with dormer windows by 1895.
“…constructed for J.W. Southack, a furniture and mattress manufacturer…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1940
Shirt manufacturers and then a wholesale clothing firm fill 394 Broadway in the 1940s and 1960s
In the 1940s the shirt makers Samuel Solow & Son and Philip Marayanov & Son both occupied the building. By the 1960s A. Schapp & Sons, a wholesale clothing company, was there, advertising itself as an auction and commission merchant and a cash buyer of entire stocks of merchandise.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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