403 Broome Street

also 255 Centre Street, 405 Broome Street | Little Italy | built 1896

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.

1895
August Trenkmann builds a seven-story loft on the corner of Broome and Centre
De Lemos & Cordes designed this seven-story Renaissance Revival loft for August Trenkmann, built in 1895-96 at the corner of Broome and Centre Streets. It rose while big factories and stores around Broadway were changing SoHo from an entertainment district into a hub of the dry-goods and textile trade. The commission's report calls its upper facade remarkably intact.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1898
Metal novelty makers, lithographers and brass founders work in the Broome Street loft
Tenants of 403-405 Broome Street included Bretzfield, Bruner & Shiers, makers of fancy metal novelties, in 1898, and the Eagle Metal Manufacturing Co. in 1904. The Columbia Lithographing Co. was there in 1924 and the New York Brass Foundry Co. from 1945 to 1951. IBM machine dealer William Marion Co. and the Albia Machine Works followed in 1970 and 1978, before the building was converted to offices.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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