Lafayette-Broome Substation

415 Broome Street | SoHo | built 1968

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

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1952
A four-story brick warehouse at 417 Broome Street is torn down and the lot becomes a parking lot
A four-story brick warehouse once stood on this lot on Broome Street. It was demolished in 1951-52, and the empty site was used as a parking lot for years afterward.
“…a site that had been vacant and used as a parking lot since a four-story, brick warehouse on the lot was demolished in 1951-52…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1968
The Transit Authority builds a one-story power station at 417 Broome Street
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Around 1968 the New York City Transit Authority put up a one-story brick power station on the former parking lot. The building carries applied lettering reading NYC Transit Authority. It is a modern infill structure among the cast-iron lofts of the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District Extension.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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