44 Lispenard Street

Tribeca | built 1867

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  1. 1867

    Dry-goods merchant Emanuel Uhlfelder puts up a five-story loft at 44 Lispenard Street

    Uhlfelder, a dealer in fancy goods and trimmings, hired architect Isaac F. Duckworth in 1866 to replace a one-story brick building at 44 Lispenard Street. He kept his own business on Broadway and treated the new loft as an investment. Finished in 1867, it was filled with feather makers, silk merchants, dry-goods dealers and cloak makers.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1867

    December 11

    Police catch a burglar jumping from the unfinished building next door with silk stolen from 44 Lispenard

    On the night of December 11, 1867, Officer Kerns spotted someone inside the construction site at 42 Lispenard Street and was met with a shower of loose bricks. A second officer fired two shots, and the intruder leapt 17 feet before being seized. The police recovered silk belonging to the firm Despres, Hartley & Co., a tenant at No. 44, and found more goods bundled for removal inside 44 itself. The Herald named the thief as Alphonse Deplechon, a young Frenchman.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1908

    August 9

    Ex-Congressman Jefferson Levy answers charges about the toilets at 44 Lispenard Street during his campaign

    Jefferson M. Levy, a former congressman, was part owner of the property, and the headquarters of the National Novelty Clothing Co. was in the building. State factory inspectors had cited him in 1908 for failing to provide a water closet for women workers. When he ran for Congress again that year, the factory's condition became a campaign issue, and on August 9 he told the Times that he was not the company's president and that the required alterations were under way.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1915

    September 1

    Cigarette maker at 44 Lispenard Street is accused of copying the Pall Mall pack

    Nicholas E. Marcoglou, a tobacco dealer who made Arabesca cigarettes in the building, drew a complaint from rival manufacturer Junius Parker in a letter dated September 1, 1915. Parker said the Arabesca packages bore an unmistakable likeness to his Pall Mall cigarettes. The dispute ended up in court, but Marcoglou stayed at the address until at least 1921.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1934

    October

    A tenant spots his own towels in an engraver's shop and unravels years of theft from 44 Lispenard Street

    Starting around 1930 the Grand Union Equipment Company lost inventory to burglars year after year. In October 1934 its president, Samuel Sackett, saw towels carrying the company's label in the engraving shop of Frank J. Wolfram, which led police to search Wolfram's rented room and the whole 95-room house around it. According to the Times of October 30, Wolfram had hired the thieves, whose haul came to roughly $20,000.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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