409 Broome Street

also 189 Lafayette Street, 187 Lafayette Street, 191 Lafayette Street | Little Italy | built 1905

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1903

    Buchman & Fox design an eight-story warehouse for August Trenkmann

    Between 1903 and 1905 the architects Buchman & Fox built an eight-story Renaissance Revival warehouse at the corner of Broome and Lafayette Streets for August Trenkmann. It replaced two nineteenth-century buildings, as larger loft buildings took over SoHo blocks that had been small houses converted to industry. Trenkmann's estate still owned the building when the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the district extension in 2010.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1906

    Shirtwaist makers and fountain pen suppliers fill the Lafayette Street warehouse

    City records show Brenner & Co., shirtwaist makers, in the building in 1906 and the Publishers' Plate Co. in 1912. The building also drew fountain pen suppliers: H. B. Dods made pen parts here in 1928 and Marshall & Meier made pen clips in 1951. By 1987 George Taylor Specialties Co., dealing in antique plumbing parts, was a tenant, and the upper floors later became offices.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 2009

    September

    The Trenkmann family, owners of 409 Broome Street, is reported to have held SoHo lofts for a century

    A September 2009 Real Deal profile of publicity-shy landlords singled out the Trenkmann family, whose mid-sized portfolio around SoHo is mostly lofts like 409 Broome Street. Unnamed sources told the magazine that the family made its fortune by patenting a hand-gun grip, and that it has held property in the neighborhood for roughly a century. A commercial-real-estate executive said the Trenkmanns keep beautiful old photos of their buildings in the office and still give tenants a two-page lease.

    Source: therealdeal.com

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