450 Broome Street

also 64 Mercer Street | SoHo | built 1895

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

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1895
February 28
John T. Williams completes a nine-story limestone warehouse at 450-452 Broome Street
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Construction ran from May 26, 1894 to February 28, 1895 on the northeast corner of Broome and Mercer streets. The nine-story warehouse is six bays wide on each street and faced in Indiana limestone with iron, brick and terra cotta. John T. Williams is listed as both owner and architect, and the original building permit was signed "John T. Williams per Alfred Zucker."
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1972
Publicist Michael Goldstein, who founded the SoHo Weekly News, moves into 450 Broome Street
Michael Goldstein lived at 450 Broome Street from 1972 until his death in 2018 and kept a rooftop garden there. A music publicist whose clients included Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead, he founded the SoHo Weekly News, which ran from 1973 to 1982. Allan Tannenbaum photographed Patti Smith posing in a wading pool in that garden.
Source: Wikipedia

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