480 Broome Street

SoHo | built 1885

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1885
January 30
Richard Berger completes a three-bay iron store at 480 Broome Street for Sleurman & Casper
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The six-story, three-bay store at 480 Broome Street was begun in July 1884 and completed in January 1885. Richard Berger designed it for the owners, Sleurman & Casper, and gave it an iron facade. Its cornice and ground-floor windows have since been replaced.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1997
Fulcrum Gallery moves to 480 Broome Street and serves weekly dinners to artists and celebrities
In 1997 Valerie Monroe Shakespeare's Fulcrum Gallery moved to a two-level space at 480 Broome Street, designed by her husband, the artist Tery Fugate-Wilcox. It had an outdoor sculpture garden and a firepole, and a new kitchen let her expand her Tuesday-night sit-down dinners to 35 to 45 guests. Guests included Robert De Niro, John DeLorean and John F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife Carolyn.
Source: Wikipedia
2002
Fulcrum Gallery closes after the September 11 attacks hollow out SoHo's art business
Fulcrum Gallery closed for good in 2002. The September 11 attacks effectively shut down SoHo, and clients stopped flying in to New York. Several staff members who lived in the gallery had been made homeless when the twin towers collapsed, and the gallery could not keep its doors open.
“The gallery closed in 2002, when the effects of the September 11, 2001 attacks effectively closed down SoHo.”
Source: Wikipedia

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