450 West Broadway

SoHo | built 2002

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

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1951
A three-story nineteenth-century brick building at 450 West Broadway is demolished, leaving a parking lot
In 1951 the three-story brick building that had stood at 450 West Broadway since the nineteenth century was torn down, an earlier building on the site. The empty lot became a parking lot. It remained one until the end of the century, when the luxury clothing retailer Max Mara built a store there.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2000
Max Mara opens a one-story store with an angled wood-and-glass front at 450 West Broadway
Built around 1999-2000 for the clothing retailer Max Mara, this one-story store was designed by the firm FZAD Architecture and Design. Its facade is angled, with glass display windows and wood planks above. It replaced the parking lot left by the 1951 demolition of an earlier brick building.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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