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43 Crosby Street | SoHo | built 1888

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

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1888
John D. Karst Jr. builds a five-story Queen Anne store and loft building at 43 Crosby Street
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Architect Alexander I. Finkle designed the brick building for John D. Karst Jr. in 1888, as factories, stores and lofts were rising around Broadway and turning SoHo into a dry-goods and mercantile district. It has a pressed-metal cornice with a sunburst, patterned brickwork and foliated spandrels typical of modest commercial Queen Anne design.
“…designed by architect Alexander I. Finkle in the Queen Anne style and was built in 1888 for John D. Karst, Jr.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1992
Paper dealers and, by 1992, a massage parlor caught in a police scandal occupy 43 Crosby Street
Over the decades the building held small paper and textile firms: the Suskin Paper Co. in 1910, the Crosby Paper Stock Co. in 1928 and the Cotton Processing Corp. in 1961. By 1992 a massage parlor operating there was involved in a police scandal. The upper floors were turned into apartments in the mid-1990s.
“…tenants have included the Suskin Paper Co. (1910); the Crosby Paper Stock Co. (1928); the Cotton Processing Corp. (1961); and a massage parlor that was involved in a police scandal in 1992…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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