479 West Broadway

also 159 Wooster Street, 69 West Houston Street, 77 West Houston Street | SoHo | built 1987

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1963
Buildings on this stretch of Houston Street are torn down in 1963 to widen the street
When Houston Street was widened in 1963, the buildings on its south side were demolished. The district report lists this block's lots between Wooster Street and West Broadway, Nos. 65-77 and 79-83, as vacant, including the corner lot at West Broadway where this building later rose.
“The buildings on the south side of the street were demolished in 1963 when Houston Street was widened.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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